If you want to understand how the horrible social changes in this country are possible, look at education, from pre-school through graduate work.

Political correctness is taught and practiced in our schools and it takes many forms. One form is to create a word that obfuscates what you are trying to say in order to not offend. Once everyone figures out what you mean, the word is changed. Mark Steyn obviously missed this lesson and is paying for it.

Who did this? Socialists, of course. Luckily, I did not attend college right out of high school as all of my friends did. All of this was just getting started by the time I graduated from high school in 1970. Colleges took it up full force. I used to hear some people praising socialism and its merits. I didn't understand it or know a thing about it. But what happened to them I later discovered was brainwashing to the greatest degree.

Over time I have realized that the more intelligent people are, the easier it seems to be to brainwash them. I dropped in and out of education over the years and each time I saw great strides toward socialism and social engineering taking the place of real education. I became a teacher and the trainings we are required to take are more and more political - and extremely anti-white, as well as anti-assimilationist.

Recently I was hired to teach a course on diversity in education. The book did not address how to teach minorities at all, as it seemed to indicate. Instead, it was all about reprogramming white kids to accept that their day is done, they've been privileged and now need to accept the fact that it is someone else's turn to succeed in society and have the rewards for it, even if they never earn them. The book embraces the credo "From each, according to his or her ability, to each according to his or her needs." Straight out of Karl Marx.

The book also teaches that we must not require diverse groups to assimilate - they must remain intact and must not be required to learn our language or ways. We must not teach patriotism; we must not allow any religious expression in schools. We must teach children social justice. What does that mean? It means redistribution of wealth. It teaches that we must not rely on equal opportunity; oh no. We must strive for equal results. It teaches that a meritocracy is bad; people must not be rewarded for their efforts. They must be rewarded just because they exist.

The book teaches that we must always teach with every culture in mind; we must not set aside a special time to recognize a different culture. We must somehow incorportate every single culture represented in the classroom into each and every lesson. (It fails to say how to do this.)

I could go on and on. Look, Adolf Hitler realized that the most effective way to change Germany was to change the children through education. And he did it. Our kids have been programmed for many, many years. Because education is centralized - we have a national department of education - mandates are handed down that all schools must follow.

Our kids no longer learn enough about basics in reading, writing, and math because they have to learn the political and social engineering material as well. The scariest thing I find is when I try to talk about this to other teachers, they just do not see it. They have been in that system since they left high school and got into college, then to work. It happened to them very subtly and they did not even know it. This kind of brainwashing seems to include creating a wall between your mind and your ability to discern anything outside the reality they've given you.

I predict that if this continues, the days of conservatives ever winning elections is fast coming to an end. We are fast becoming a socialist nation. If you ever wonder what that will look like, read George Orwell's "Animal Farm." In a milieu like that, it makes sense that people like Al Gore can scream at everyone to reduce their carbon emissions while he creates enough for a small city. "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal."

I feel like this insanity is happening right under people's noses and no one sees it, except a few like me; we are like that boy who said, "The emperor has no clothes!" If left unchecked much longer, there is no hope things will ever be as they were again. It is probably already too late.