River over troubled bridges

Make civics central to any state-funded education again. If they can't do this, it is a confession. Teach the Constitution to end the reign of Equity zealots. This really is not that difficult. You have to WANT to make it so. ✊️🌊 Logical Reasoning "Americans have a very short memory. America has a relatively short history. How quickly we as people seem to have forgotten the very roots that make us who we are. The philosophical foundations that define The American Project; the civics which underpin them. Our great Founders had just come out of a brutal battle for freedom and independence - the very right to create this magnificent project, and live in the beautiful manner it envisioned and prescribed. Walk down the Bill of Rights. What do they represent? They each are a pillar of individual freedom. For it is not our federal government who has granted us as Americans the right to, well, be American. We have these rights innately; they are not bestowed onto us as they were in feudal times or always will be under tyranny. The very structure our gray-haired minds created for us was to ensure that we would always possess core rights as individuals, as families, as communities. This steps up a level and becomes states’ rights. Read the Articles of Confederation. We were always a republic, not a true democracy. We are a collection of states - a union, in fact - which came together for a common purpose, a greater common cause, sharing in a common flag. But we were always meant to remain independent, not become a homogenous blob under the thumb of some federal organ in the northeast. Imagine the horrors those men would feel at such a thought! They gave their lives to never see it on our soil again. These concepts, these beautiful gems of American society and thought, are codified within our Constitution. That document is unique in this world, it is unique in human history. There has never been anything quite like it. Again, those men; they knew this when they were drafting it. The core concepts contained are all designed to protect this vision, to protect the American Dream. It is not a coincidence that our youth no longer study the Federalist Papers. That the critical importance of understanding civics has given way to a fetish of the social-sciences, a fixation with controlling the way of man in the name of chasing an unobtainable Utopia. The latter crash of that sentence is directly tied to its beginning. Academia has been almost entirely usurped, and the gospel it teaches (and oh, it is a gospel!) is now antithetical to everything we were built upon. Generation after generation has been brainwashed away from our principles. Is it really a surprise to anyone that our flag and anthem are so stained, the sense of patriotism dimmed, and the spirit of national pride painted as abhorrent? Of course not. If you were to destroy American in three easy steps, we’re touching on them right now. There is a book of that name and of the spirit of this piece so far. You should check it out if you haven’t read it and this topic interests you. This chasm between those who understand these American principles and those who believe the role of our government is to create our rights is the most critical divide in our country. In many ways, it is the single division that defines our “culture war”." theojordan.substack.com/p/ex…