Indoctrination

Into Dependency

Welcome once again to the Asylum, my dear readers. I know in the past that I have said I don’t think there are hundred-year-old plots for world domination, and I still don’t. I think there are disconnected plans by generations of wealthy people acting in their own interests and often believing they know best for everyone else. That being said, there is a plan coming to fruition long after its architects have fallen. This plan was set in motion over 60 years ago, and it is the driving factor in America’s current leftist problem. It is also one of the primary reasons children are more indoctrinated than educated in most school systems, and neither they nor the instructors can think rationally or critically in most cases.

Our story starts in the 1950s, a time when our education system was local and excellent, our currency was still nominally hard, and the average adult knew there was little difference between Nazis and Communists, but more importantly, they are both bad. It was good times, even if the Cold War was raging. In this period, there was a Senator, Joseph McCarthy, who was very concerned about socialist infiltration of our culture. So, he held investigations, and why wouldn’t you when Stalin and then, more recently (from his perspective), Khrushchev had publicly spoken about infiltrating American culture through entertainment and education? The hearings at times were brutal and did ruin, rightly and wrongly, the reputations and careers of some prominent people.

This led to some fear and backlash (largely incited by political opponents more concerned with discrediting him than the validity of his concerns). This resulted in McCarthyism being a derogatory term for unreasonable interrogation for the next 40 years. Sadly, as we sit here in 2026, it is more than obvious Senator McCarthy was 100% correct, and we are suffering from the fact that he was essentially shut down in the end. We could use some McCarthyism today in a bunch of places and not just for Commies anymore.

The backlash from the Red Scare, coupled with the unpopular war in Vietnam, specifically fought to oppose Communism and for no other reason, made a significant minority of the Baby Boomer generation view communism as favorable and more easily influenced by Communist propaganda. This was followed by the USSR funding much of the anti-war movement and violent groups like the Weather Underground and Black Panthers. This is because, by the 1960s, it was clear to everyone in power in the USSR that they would never come out on top in a battle of economic power with the United States and, as such, could not come out on top in a military conflict with the United States. Almost every large-scale conflict America has ever fought in history has been won by the economic ability to sustain the fight with materiel more than manpower. The outliers are Korea and Vietnam, and those were only because they weren’t legally wars and so were unable to flip the industrial switch that previous wars did. In more recent conflicts, we sort of won while we were there, largely because the technology gap was so wide, but even then, days after our withdrawal, those places were essentially restored to the state they were before we arrived. As a result, the planners in the USSR set in motion a plan to capture our culture from within. This started with the hippies seeking academic positions at universities across the country in a greater percentage than any generation before it. Many of these new professors were the same radicals like Kathy Boudin, Mark Rudd, and Paul Krueger, who were members of Soviet-funded organizations like the Weather Underground, but had also been convicted of felonies, including murders that were politically motivated by their leftist ideologies.

It was in this period of the late ’70s onward we saw the massive push for everyone to get a college education, regardless of actual academic ability. At first, there were legitimate standards, and not everyone could get into college, and even with financial aid programs, there was a barrier to entry. Then, as these same people moved from academics into policy positions, it resulted in the previous federal student loan program, first enacted in response to Sputnik and available specifically for certain science, math, and engineering programs (as a national defense initiative), being overhauled in 1992/93, removing qualification requirements and making them available for literally any field of study, regardless of its viability as an income-generating career.

Shortly after this change occurred, it became apparent to administrators that they were leaving a lot of money on the table. As a result, entrance requirements continued to drop and are still dropping today, with many schools no longer requiring an ACT or SAT as part of the admissions process. As standards dropped, colleges needed new courses of study that degrees could be issued in for people who couldn’t actually get a degree in the old college system (pre–late ’90s/early ’00s). Unfortunately, the Marxist