Andrea Widburg - Editor, American Thinker - Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Five fifty two is their time now? All right? When
did the left get the foot in the door? Mike,
If I had to take a guess, I'm gonna say,
If I had to pick a year, I'm gonna go
with nineteen sixty eight right around there.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
No, that's when it ramped up. It started in nineteen thirteen.
Woodrow Wilson was a progressive president the League of Nations.
Remember that. I was yeah, world War One, it was
nineteen eighteen, but the schools.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Were still normal back then. I think I think it's.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
The ending on where you live.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I guess let's ask Henry Woodburg what she thinks. She's
an editor of American Thinker. When do you think the
left got his foot in the door? And where did
they stick it in the door? I think it was
the schools.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
You are both right. It did start with the progressives
even before Wilson, because they were the experts, and they
were going to turn schools into factories where children learned
how to be good socialists because they were Progressivism was socialism.
The Frankfurt school that escaped Nazi Germany started teaching it

(00:59):
at college is, especially Columbia, so more and more teachers
were trained in it, and by the nineteen sixties late
nineteen sixties it started flowering in school districts in more
leftist cities, such as when I grew up in San Francisco,
New York, Chicago. And then it continuously got reinforced through
the colleges as all the teachers training colleges turned hard left.

(01:22):
So it doesn't matter if you're in a teeny red
community or in New York City, all your teachers are
going to be teaching socialism, which was started one hundred
years ago by people like Dewey and gain Adams at
Hull Halls, and then it's been What we haven't seen
is one hundred years of this.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Okay, Well, if it's all across America and it is
in all the schools, pretty much all the schools, what
hope do we have? I mean, how do you turn
that around?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, they took one hundred years to bring it to us.
It's not going to turn around overnight. I would say
homeschooling is a good way to go because the schools,
unless you have an exceptional school system, the schools are
corrupt across the board, ideologically corrupt, and having parents who
are willing to work hard to communicate their values to
their children, getting involved in school boards, going to the

(02:15):
meetings and hoping you don't get arrested by the FBI.
Selecting conservatives for the school board. That's a huge thing
because leftis are gravitate to schools as teachers as administrators,
and conservatives don't. And it means reorienting conservative energy in

(02:37):
terms of school boards teaching things like that. You know,
more and more states are doing something really wonderful which
and I believe Florida has done this, which is to
say that you don't need to have gone to a
teaching college to be a teacher. You just need to
pass a standardized test in your subject. College is Yeah,

(02:58):
for years with teacher when my kids were in school,
they know nothing but the teachers textbook and leftism.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
So much of it is about the money though, Andrea.
I mean here in Houston, HID is a huge school, desert,
huge budget. George Sorows was putting a lot of money
into HID and they just loved him for it because
he allowed all these programs to be available. Well, look
what happens when you've got billionaires coming in who are
socialist or Marxist, and it's all about the money, and

(03:29):
it's political power too.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
It is My dad was a teacher. We scraped by
near poverty level, and when my kids were growing up,
the teachers were getting lavish pay for seven months of work.
And so the whole economic system is different, and it's
coming from the state, and it's coming from these leftist people,

(03:52):
and they're setting up programs and a lot of it
is all these young women we hear about. You know,
the largest group of people supporting Harris is white young women.
And these are the ones who go to the teacher colleges.
These are the ones who come out and teach the
children about climate change and gender madness and United States
being a colonialist power, the common core. And they're not

(04:16):
the crazy purple haired people you see on libs of TikTok.
They're sweet young women who are vectors of leftism.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Wow. All right, Andrea, thank you, appreciate you joining us
this morning. That's the editor of American Thinker, Andrea Whitberg.
It is five fifty seven