The rise of socialism in the United States can only be explained by an abject failure of our public schools to educate our children on its manifest evils.
It isn’t merely an alternative system to organize society, but rather a system that is the antithesis of our founding principles—“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Why this is not a commonly held view reminds me of Oliver Wendell Holmes declaring, “At times like this, we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.”
