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It Takes A Potemkin Village

In a stunning statement this week, MSNBC commentator and self-exposed collectivist Melissa Harris-Perry came right out and declared openly that “we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.” This is Collectivist theology, from the lips of a college professor at Tulane University.

Ms. Harris-Perry is virulently pro-abortion, pro-statist, and has publicly opposed school vouchers, home schooling and other forms of parental choice options because it puts too much influence in the hands of parents at the expense of the state. She believes that the public schools are the primary tool to be used for the proper indoctrination of society’s children, in spite of their poor performance on academic development and preparing children to function and contribute meaningfully to society.

These days if your child grows up to accomplish something and is able to support him/herself, they have done so in spite of a public school education.

This escalating sacrifice of American independence and uniqueness on the bloody altar of collective statism has been observed before in other countries – places like Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Cuba, Cambodia and China. All of these despotic regimes placed “the village” (state) above individuals, with horrific results. This image of the state being a benevolent paternal/maternal caretaker is the ultimate Potemkin village.

As our current government and its acolytes and toadies seem to grow in power and begin to more rapidly constrict American freedoms, I am reminded of the frightening parallels to the great nemesis of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

“We Are Borg. We are one. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”

Image: Prince Potemkin; date: 1791; source: http://www.hrono.info/biograf/potemkin.html; author: Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder (1751–1830); public domain/copyright has expired

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Nathan Clark

Nathan Clark is a conservative commentator who resides with his wife in New Hampshire. He is passionate about preserving the vision of our nation's Founders and advancing those tried and true principles deep into America's future. His interests range broadly from flyfishing, cooking and shooting to pro sports, gardening, live music and fine-scale modeling.

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