Scott McKay, Daniel Jupp: The Marxist Shadows in Education Undermining Society

The post-World War II transformation of national identity, marked by Marxist influence in education that demonized nationalism created a social divide. This division contrasts the globalist inclinations of the elite with the working class' attachment to traditional values. There's a nostalgia for the unity and patriotism of the 1980s-1990s America, presented as a counterpoint to current progressive and elitist policies.

Concerns are raised over the shift from working-class issues to identity politics and environmental activism has led to the converse support for political figures and movements that embody nationalist sentiments, such as Trump and Brexit. Scott and Daniel advocates for a cultural and political revival that challenges progressive dominance.

Selected Quotes:
from Daniel:
National Unity and Misinterpretation: "National identity is a unifier. But what we let happen since World War Two is that we let nationalism be speared with Nazism."

Marxist Influence on Education: "And it was Marxist historians doing this and they controlled the narrative. And they were writing the school textbooks, you know, and the people writing our school textbooks were Marxists."

Historical Distortion: "In Britain, one of the most influential was a guy called Hobsbawm... The school textbooks were written by self-declared Marxists."

Casualties for Ideology: "It happened with Hobsbawm about once I ever saw in an interview where he was asked about the number of people who had been killed in communist slaughters around the world. And his reply was that essentially you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."

Unlimited Casualties for a Utopia: "So what that essentially means is that people who were writing our school textbooks thought that any number of deaths would be okay to create a socialist utopia."

Redefining Grievances: "They then co-opted race as a shortcut to grievance because class wasn't working for them."

Working Class Abandonment: "So what we saw then is that the left abandoned the working class and didn't want to represent them anymore."

Class Division and Perception: "And if you look at it on a class basis, the higher you get up the social scale, the more these insane academic ideas of self-hatred are prevalent."

Global Citizenship vs. National Loyalty: "The higher you get on the social scale, the more likely you are to consider yourself a citizen of the world with no loyalty to your particular place and people."

Dichotomy of Values: "The higher up you are, the more you want to destroy all those things and create something better. And the lower down you are, the more you want to preserve what little you’ve got."

Historical and Academic Control: "And they were writing the school textbooks... the people writing our school textbooks were Marxists."

Normalization of Extreme Ideologies: "And they took this idea that nationalism is Nazism and they pressed it into every school they could, every college, every university."

Misrepresentation of Nationalism: "But what we let happen since World War Two is that we let nationalism be speared with Nazism."

Class and Political Preferences: "Voting for Trump or something like voting for Brexit in the UK, it’s class divided."

Disconnect from Traditional Values: "The higher you get on the social scale, the more likely you are to... have no loyalty to your particular place and people."

from Scott:
Critique of the Status Quo: "I don't want to conserve much of anything because I think the status quo sucks."

Idealization of the Past: "Like in the United States, we're talking about the 1980s-1990s, which, you know, when I grew up, you had a much more unified, much more patriotic, much more free society."

Elitism and Socialism: "It's a great irony that the people who think they're socialist and the people who think that they're going to be levelling things are the worst elitists on the planet."

Criticism of Mao Zedong: "Mao Zedong hated the Chinese people with a colossal passion. The guy was a pure psychopath."

Skepticism Towards Environmental Policies: "None of the assumptions that you claim to justify all of this behavior and these policies and these not best practices, none of these assumptions actually hold water, right?"

Denial of Sea Level Rise: "Sea levels are pretty much what they were in 1800. It's not that the waters are rising, the waters are the same."

Reflection on Reagan's Legacy: "The problem with the sort of revival of the 1980s, at least on this side of the pond, I think, was that Ronald Reagan was not able to build a train behind him."

Critique of Current Political Leadership: "Part of this is you need politicians who are not the namby-pamby, weak-kneed, conservatives that don't want to do anything to actually fight the left on their own turf."