America's Founding Principles Are Being Undermined By Politicians, The Mainstream Media and Public Education

There was a time when I believed Education was the most important vehicle for ensuring the health and prosperity of America and the world.... My reasoning being that as we are educated about history and how to think etc., then we would simply become more aware of what's right and wrong, and in turn, gain a better understanding of how to live, how to be a better person, how to vote and contribute in other ways to help make the world a better place.

However, being younger and somewhat naive, I had not factored-in the natural tendencies of humans to manipulate any system or institution (in this case the Educational System) to gain power, influence and advantage, in order to further an agenda.

This is Human Nature, and without some guidance, rules or laws for us to live by, every one of us will ultimately follow along this self-centered route.

The Education System has become a system driven by individuals leading organizations with far too much power. Those individuals have agendas. At this point, it is easy to see the unhealthy alliances between the leaders of our Educational System and Politicians and also with the powers-that-be in the mainstream media.

Just as many (or most all) politicians have been corrupted to serve various lobbyists and special interest groups, the mainstream media has also been very much influenced away from reporting the truth and toward what sells and their own agendas or world-view. So, the relationship between the two factions has always been more intimate than would otherwise best serve the interests of society. That is, the connections between the mainstream media and politicians have served to compromise the truth, to distort reality and to divert what is objectively right, from the public eye.

Along with most every other institution that is made up of and led by individuals subject to the whims of politicians and the mainstream media (simply because most people do not suspect they are being deceived and manipulated), the Educational System first became a victim of what they were being fed and seduced to believe by these forces. However, the Public Educational System has gradually become implicit in the design to impose the same so-called "truths" and sensibilities through their educational curriculum... to the point now where their power and influence on society rivals that of the political/mainstream-media which corrupted them.

In other words, politicians are largely corrupt, and as a result of their ties with the mainstream media, the truth is not reported and reality is being misrepresented to the people (in large part to help further their agendas). Sadly, the Public Educational System has also become corrupted and is now entrenched in an approach to teaching exactly what politicians and the mainstream media have led them to believe.

So, having come to recognize these unfortunate circumstances we now face, it is no longer "education" that I believe is the most important means for ensuring the health and prosperity of our country, but rather an uncompromising dedication to the truth itself, which can never be influenced away from itself and which is only born of true humility to and reverence for our Creator.