>WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – President Trump announced Thursday that he will sign an executive order to promote “patriotic education” in the United States.
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>“I will soon sign an executive order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education,” Trump said. “It will be called the ‘1776 Commission.'”
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>Trump made the comments while speaking at the National Archives.
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>“It will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history, and make plans to honor the 250th Anniversary of our founding,” Trump said.
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>It’s not yet clear how the commission will function.
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@geniusmusing While I am amazed to see how little our kids are learning about our nation and its history (not even enough to know the American experiment is worth continuing, despite the history of warts), I can’t see any way for this program to be anything other than rah-rah.
And also ... on both extremes of the political spectrum (authoritarian marxist / communist and authoritarian fascist / nazi), there are usually "patriotic" brainwashing programs meant to "encourage" people to carry out the government's programs without any sort of morality filters or other reservations.
May as well join teach them to join Scientology and put rattlesnakes in the mailboxes of those who question the organization or its leaders.
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”