Tim Walz ‘Says’ He Wants to Destroy America
By Thomas D. Klingenstein
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Editors’ Note: Tim Walz gives the impression of a well-meaning, left-wing Elmer Fudd. Your first clue that this is wrong is his 15 trips to Red China. One does not get into China during that era and afterward partner with the government unless the Communist authorities like you and what you are doing. In addition, his picks for educational advice and who he selects to create the curriculum tell even more about him. And his selection for Vice President by Kamala Harris tells you a great deal about where her governing philosophy lies. She is not an empty head, despite that impression. She has been drinking from the Communist well since she was a child, as her father was a Communist professor. Her voting record in the Senate was the most liberal, which says something in that she had competition from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Neither Harris nor Walz should be anywhere near the Oval Office.
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz “says” he wants to destroy America — not expressly; nonetheless with perfect clarity. Walz’s mouthpiece and education guru, Brian Lozenski, actually did say it expressly. In the embedded video, Lozenski, whom Walz appointed to craft an “ethnic studies” curriculum for Minnesota children, calls for the overthrow of the United States. (Ethnic Studies, despite its harmless-sounding name, is founded on Critical Race Theory and, like CRT, is aimed at overthrowing America.)
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In the video (edited for clarity), Lozenski explains that:
The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist. So if the nation-state as constructed is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with. It must be overthrown. And so we [proponents of critical race theory] can’t be like, “Oh no, critical race theory is just about telling our stories, and diversity. It’s not about that. It’s about overthrow. It’s insurgent. And we need to be, I think, more honest with that.
It’s funny that [critics] don’t understand critical race theory, but they actually tell some truth when they’re like, “Yeah, it is anti-state.” You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S. It is a[n] anti-state theory that says the United States needs to be deconstructed, period.
This is the most important video of this election cycle, because it shows clearly that there exists in America an enemy regime that wants to destroy us. Lozenski is not a marginal figure; he is a nationally known activist and academic, typical of the destructive Left. Trump often says, correctly, that the enemy within is far more dangerous than the enemy without. Here, right in front of us, is the enemy within.
Although Republican leaders certainly understand that there is today in America an unusually large divide, they do not seem to understand that it is much more than a divide; it is a fundamental, irreconcilable difference between two regimes with different understandings of what constitutes a just society. This makes it a war. The Lozenski video, which declares war on America, should wake up Republicans. Will it?
Lozenski’s video is unlikely to get traction unless leaders on the Right make a big deal of it. It’s late in the day; still, given its significance, leading Republicans should with urgency bring this to the attention of voters. The video is a gift. Republicans must take advantage of it.
Lozenski, an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was selected by Governor Tim Walz’s Education Department to help write the statewide “implementation framework” (similar to a curriculum) for Minnesota’s new “ethnic studies” standards, which will provide the foundation for ethnic studies for all public schools in Minnesota. Lozenski is the foremost authority on ethnic studies in Minnesota, and the de facto leader of Walz’s ethnic studies initiative.
Education expert Stanley Kurtz writes:
Lozenski is no outlier. On the contrary, he has been the leading voice advocating the addition of a radical version of “ethnic studies” to Minnesota’s social-studies standards (citizenship and government, economics, geography, history, and now ethnic studies). Lozenski is also the key organizer and thought leader for the radical leftist advocacy groups that Governor Walz has effectively put in charge of rewriting Minnesota’s social-studies standards.
Ethnic studies (which is to say CRT) will be embedded in every required subject, including the sciences, in every grade from kindergarten to 12th grade. It is also taught as a stand-alone subject, required already of every graduate of St. Paul public schools.
Katherine Kersten, a senior policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment in Minneapolis, gives us a flavor of the new standards:
- First-graders must “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.”
- Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.”
- High school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.”
These standards are intended to lead students to disdain America and join in the overthrow of their country. In the revolution of which Walz is an important part, students are taught that their country is “irreversibly” racist. As Lozenski says in the video, such a charge is necessarily a call to overthrow America.
The members of the Minnesota Department of Education’s ethnic studies working group — now drafting an implementation framework — are, like Lozenski, activists. The committee that drafted Minnesota’s new social studies standards, which made ethnic studies mandatory, was likewise dominated by activists. This is not by accident. The Minnesota chapter of Education for Liberation — whose leader is Lozenski — proudly proclaims that “the decision was made to pack” the social studies standards drafting committee with its members and allies. Education for Liberation is, as its name suggests, a revolutionary organization committed to the overthrow of America.
To the extent Tim Walz consciously employs this group and Lozenski to effect their ends, Walz is a traitor. That he most probably could not be convicted in a court of law makes him no less so…..
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Tom Klingenstein is the chairman of the Claremont Institute, a public speaker, a writer, a philanthropist, and a playwright.
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