30 Years After Fall of Berlin Wall, Let’s Tear Down Wall of Dogma That Thwarts Our Liberty
Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. East Germans celebrated their liberation from communism and a collapsing socialist economy. Today, 36% of American millennials have a favorable view of communism and 70% might vote socialist. What happened?
Socialists followed their plan to conquer from within by manipulating the young, via socialist "educators", socialist infested movies and tv, and socialist biased "news"papers.
About the only movies that didn't have socialist propaganda in the past 25 years are Atlas Shrugged 1, 2, and 3.
Thanks, Edward, for keeping the flame of liberty alive by reporting the truth. 👍
Griffin: How would you describe the motivation of the people who created the foundations -- the big foundations -- in the very beginning? What was their motivation?
Dodd: Their motivation was, well, let's take Mr. Carnegie, as an example. His publicly declared and steadfast interest was to counteract the departure of the colonies from Great Britain. He was devoted just to putting the pieces back together again.
Griffin: Would that have required the collectivism to which they were dedicated?
Dodd: No. No. No. These policies are the foundations' allegiance to these un-American concepts; these policies are all traceable to the transfer of the funds over into the hands of Trustees, Mr. Griffin. Those Trustees were not the men who had a hand in the creation of the wealth that led to the endowment, or the use of that wealth for what we would call public purposes.
Griffin: It was a subversion of the original intent, then?
Dodd: Oh, yes! Completely so. We got into the worlds, traditionally, of bankers and lawyers.
Griffin: How have the purpose and direction of the major foundations changed, over the years, up to the present? What are their purposes and directions today?
Dodd: 100% behind meeting the cost of education, such as it is presented through the schools and colleges of this United States, on the subject of our history -– to prove that our original ideas are no longer practical. The future belongs to collectivistic concepts. There is just no disagreement on this.
Griffin: Why do the foundations generously support communist causes in the United States?
Dodd: Well, because, to them, communism represents a means of developing what we call a monopoly -- as the organization, we'll say, of large-scale industry into an administrable unit.
Griffin: Do they think that they will?
Dodd: They will be the beneficiary of it, yes.
They then decide that the key to the success of these two operations lay in the alteration of the teaching of American History. So, they approach four of the then most prominent teachers of American History in the country -- people like Charles and Mary Byrd. Their suggestion to them is this, “Will they alter the manner in which they present their subject”” And, they get turned down, flatly.
So, they then decide that it is necessary for them to do as they say, i.e. “build our own stable of historians." Then, they approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say” “When we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American History, and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say so? And the answer is, “Yes.”
So, under that condition, eventually they assemble twenty (20), and they take these twenty potential teachers of American History to London. There, they are briefed in what is expected of them -- when, as, and if they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned.
That group of twenty historians ultimately becomes the nucleus of the American Historical Association. And then, toward the end of the 1920's, the Endowment grants to the American Historical Association four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for a study of our history in a manner which points to what this country look forward to, in the future.
That culminates in a seven-volume study, the last volume of which is, of course, in essence, a summary of the contents of the other six. The essence of the last volume is this: the future of this country belongs to collectivism, administered with characteristic American efficiency.
That is the story that ultimately grew out of, and of course, was what could have been presented by the members of, this Congressional Committee, and the Congress as a whole, for just exactly what it said. But, they never got to that point!
Griffin: This is the story that emerged from the minutes at the Carnegie Foundation?
Dodd: That's right.
Griffin: And so?
Dodd: It was official to that extent.
It was a pleasure to watch your interview with the Aussie the other day. Fascinating bit on the discovery you discussed regarding DNA and a component that diminishes with aging. The implications and potential seems significant.
Now I read an editorial in the Epoch Times. Outstanding!
The schools have killed critical thinking and put a blanket over the history that you discussed and we lived through. Most high school grads can’t tell you who was in our revolutionary war. The can tell you what they deserve though.
In the last 50 years we have been driven down a PC path to hell. Record mental depressions and illness . Likely exasperated by the cognitive dissonance the post modernernism causes.
Anyway good work.
"Leftists have erected a Berlin Wall in the minds of young people, imprisoning them in dogma.."
What happened is that the younger generation has no actual experience in what communism and the "dictaturiat of the polestars" are about.
All they know "free this and free that" but they see only the tip of the iceberg as the left is presenting it but they have no idea of what is under the surface.
Send these Millennials to Venezuela to live there for a year and ask them if they still think communism is the solution.