Students in Red China are Four Grade Levels Above US Students in Math (and probably other subjects too)

by Al Benson Jr.

Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America

Just this evening (Dec 4th) I read an article on the Zero Hedge site by Michael Snyder that was originally on The End of The American Dream blog.

This grabbed my attention because I have recently done a few articles on public education for my Revised History blog spot. All things considered, I felt it was about time to do another one for The Copperhead Chronicle blog, and what more important issue to do one on than what passes for education in this country. Many may feel I have been beating a dead horse regarding the education issue, but Mr. Snyder's article should show folks that this is one horse that needs to be beaten, and it will also show that I am not the only one that feels this way.

Mr. Snyder makes some astute comments on what passes for public education in this country. He says: "How in the world is America supposed to remain 'the greatest country on earth' when other nations  are absolutely running circles around us when it comes to education? As you will see below, one survey found that 15-year-old students in China are almost four full grade levels ahead of students in the United States in mathematics. This is one of the most damning indictments of our education system that I have ever come across, and it is yet another clear indication that what we are doing is simply not working. Our children are not being given the tools they need to compete in our modern society, and we have only ourselves to blame. Perhaps you are thinking the survey must be flawed somehow."

Well, not quite. Mr. Snyder noted that this was not some one-horse survey given to a mere handful of students in East Overshoe, Alabama. Snyder informs us that: "Ever three years, the Program for International Student Assessment evaluyates 15-year-old students all over the world in a variety of subject areas, and in 2018 approximately 32 million students participated...when your sample size is 32 million students, I think it is safe to say that the results of the survey should be taken seriously. And what the survey discovered is the U.S. students continue to fall behind in math. In particular, we have fallen way, way behind the Chinese...In addition, the survey also discovered that the 'most disadvantaged' students in China actually performed on a par with the average U.S. student...What in the world has happened to us? We used to have the best education system in the entire world, but now we have become a nation of drooling idiots that can't even think straight."

Other items in this article show that it is in other areas besides math that our students are more than intellectually challenged.

It was noted that "One recent survey found that 74% of Americans don't even know how many  amendments are in the Bill of Rights...Shockingly, only 26% of Americans can name all three branches of government...During the 2016 election, more than 40% of Americans did not know who was running for vice-president from either of the major parties...30 years ago, the United States awarded more high school diplomas than anyone in the world. Today, we have fallen to 36th place." And even that last statistic about the diplomas does not indicate how many of the kids that got one really earned one thirty years ago, because our public school system has been systemically broken for lots longer than that.

The material in this article is not presented to we will all see the need to reform the public school system, start attending our local parent/teacher meetings or any of the other blather put forth to preserve and defend our public schools. Quite the contrary. This material is presented so that parents, particularly Christian parents can see, if they have their kids in public schools, that this is a system that will never be fixed or reformed no matter how many millions are poured into it. The more money spent on it the worse it gets. Parents, you need to start grasping one thing. the public school system does not exist to educate your children. It exists to indoctrinate them according to the wishes of the New World Order--so that, in the end, they will belong to the State and not to their families.

I realize that when I was young and attended public schools they had prayer and Bible reading and all the other amenities guaranteed to keep people putting their kids in them. But in due time, all those amenities disappeared and the public school's real agenda is now openly manifested via the Drag Queens, the  explicit sex education classes and the rotten excuse for history taught in most of them. You are seeing public education today in its true light--if you are willing to take a look. Again, I am not saying all public school teachers buy into this junk. Lots of them don't, but they are, in a sense, captive to a system that does.

Literally, over the decades, I have spent time documenting the glaring intentional deficiencies of the public schools, so I am not going to go into that here and now. Check out some of the articles about education I have posted on my Revised History blog since 2011. There is a batch of them, some only posted recently. If you want to save your kids' souls, you need to get them out of public schools and into some sort of Christian education. It is as simple as that.

Note: Many of you will have problems getting into this article. The internet censors do not want you to read what I post so you will have to find ways of getting into this. Sometimes you will get a notice warning you against this article, and there will be a place at the bottom of the article that says "details" and often if you go there you can click onto the article regardless of the warnings you get above it. I guess I should assume I am doing something right when the censors try to discourage you from reading what I write.

Are You Ready For Civil War? The Hard Left Is

by Al Benson Jr.

It seems that no matter what the average American wants,  the hard Left is preparing for civil disruption and civil war. Sound far out to you? It really isn't. Just take a quick look back at Charlottesville and Ferguson. There were sneak previews of what is to come on a bigger scale.

The hard Left is funded by Obama's Organizing for Action group and by some Soros-funded NGO groups, and they are preparing for civil war. They are being trained by professional agitators on how to confront Trump supporters,  how to confront conservative Christians, how to confront political conservatives and the police. One question we need to start asking ourselves is--who is in back of the screen funding all these groups that are planning to fund the revolution?

Some of these groups are Antifa, Black lives Matter, Obama's OFA group, and something new called the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement. What an appropriate name for this new group. The 19th century abolitionists would be proud!

According to www.teaparty.org "An armed Antifa group is fundraising to support the building of a new cell in Philadelphia. And the alt-left media is helping by publishing its press release calling for 'abolitionism and revolutionary anarchism' to 'decisively eradicate the abhorrence of 21st century slavery." The group considers our current prison system as 21st century slavery. And who knows where those funds came from--to create an "underground railroad" to enable people to  "escape the state." And their rationale is  interesting. They feel that "the Civil War was never resolved and the system of slavery transitioned into the prison industrial complex."

Some of these groups are going back and studying the tactics used by their spiritual predecessors, the Leftist radicals of the 1960s and 70s--classic guerilla military tactics. Leftist groups all the way from black activist groups to transgender groups are involved according to a report by political analyst Doug Hagmann, who authors the The Hagmann Report. He says some of these groups have been infiltrated and this is how he has been made aware of this.

This is a highly organized operation--it is not your typical Leftist "peacenicks" with Molotov cocktails and "peace" signs. These groups are building a coalition to take down Trump, and in the process, take down the Republic and replace it with--guess what? You get three guesses and the first two don't count! Subtle they aren't. They plan to kill those who will not agree to agree with them.

They are busy compiling a list of city and town mayors, city government people, etc. that agree with their agenda around the country. There are Leftist professionals who are teaching them how to use weapons against us, using Saul Alinksy's tactics among other things.

Suffice it to say, and by now some of you have already figured this out, this is a Deep State operation at the highest levels. It is the standard "pressure from above and pressure from below" operation that I have written about in the past, and, as typical cultural Marxists, they plan to fully implement all those things they vehemently claim to be against. Do I advocate that people be afraid of this? NO! I do advocate that people be aware, though. Learn that everyone that comes to you in sheep's clothing ain't a sheep and you need to be able to tell the sheep from the wolves--and learn to expose the wolves for what they are.

Welcome to (almost) "Free Mississippi"

by Al Benson Jr.

Welcome to (almost, but not quite) free Mississippi, where your state flag is not welcome on college campuses and where you can be threatened with arrest if you dare to carry it on campus. The folks that run many of these colleges and universities, not only in Mississippi but in other parts of the country as well are cultural Marxists, which means, in plain language that they are often the "nice" Marxists. They won't cut your throat but they will try to steal your kids' heritage from them. And if they happen to work at a state college then you are paying them to do this with your tax money. Comforting thought isn't it?

So the state flag is no longer welcome at Ole Miss and other places in Mississippi as well. But the people that run many of these centers of "education" would be more than willing to have Communist flags on campus, or flags representing the black liberation movement or the transgender movement. This, they believe, would demonstrate their penchant for "diversity" or multi-culturalism or whatever they are calling their particular brand of prejudice nowadays. I'm sure that when folks start to catch on they will change the names again.

I remember, years ago now, a school I knew about on the East Coast (the original Left Coast) brought in an identified Communist to teach the kids committed to their charge how to do "community organizing." When a local pastor called them on that they told him "We like to expose our students to all different viewpoints." Of course having someone from the John Birch Society in to lecture the students would never, and I mean never, have occurred to them. They wanted to be diverse but not THAT diverse!

Same situation in Mississippi. The educational elders in many of these schools welcome diversity, as long as it is a diversity from the left. The right is not worth mentioning--and they don't, anymore than they are forced to except to scream about how those on the right are all "racist, sexist, homophobes, Islamaphobes, and "deplorables." Sound familiar? The erstwhile candidate that is running (maybe not as fast as she used to) on the Democratic ticket could have taken her speech about us deplorables from most any college president in the country. But it gives you a really good view of what these folks thinks of us ordinary folks, and it ain't much, but then you already knew that.

So the kids at the University of Mississippi are free to go to the football games as long as they don't take their state flag in with them or as long as they don't bring in a sign requesting that the band play Dixie. The kids could walk in with almost anything else and it wouldn't be nearly as reprehensible as these two items. You have to know that your world has really been turned upside down when your state flag is banned on campus. The Communist Hammer & Sickle would be welcomed but the Mississippi state flag is not. If you are paying attention at all this has to tell you something, and if you're not paying attention then maybe you should be.

Lots of kids showed up with Mississippi state flags for last Saturday's football game at the University of Mississippi--and had them confiscated by campus police. According to an article on http://dailycaller.com "Students who had their flags taken away by police--along with signs declaring 'Let The Band Play Dixie'--said they were threatened with arrest if they did not give them up." So at the University of Mississippi you can be arrested for displaying your state flag. I tell you, folks, that's real progress, a sign of true "liberty" but for who? Certainly not for ordinary Mississippians. How long will it be before flying your state flag on your own property will be forbidden? Don't laugh--it's not as far fetched as it sounds. And if the folks in Mississippi don't stand up and resist this damn-foolishness it may well come to that.

I noted one positive event at the university's football game last week--a whole batch of students got together and unfurled a 20' by 30' Mississippi state flag in the student section. Someone sent me a photo of it on Facebook and it had to have caught someone's attention as big as it was, but it also showed that those students who held it up there for everyone to see must still have had some pride in and thankfulness for their state flag and its heritage. I don't know if the police eventually confiscated this one or if someone managed to sneak it out wrapped in their jacket or not but it was good to see the picture. It showed that, at some level, not quite all the students had bought into this cultural Marxism that is so cloyingly present on so many campuses, even in the South. With the Lord's help and guidance there may yet be hope, but the battle is far from over and far from won. And those who want to preserve their heritage, faith, and culture need to learn to "keep the skeer on" because you can bet our adversaries plan on doing that.

The Real Sodomite Agenda--It sounds somewhat Marxist

by Al Benson Jr.

To anyone with a brain it has to be apparent that the Christian faith and biblical truth are under attack today as never before in our history. Unfortunately, most of the Church is sleeping through this and under no circumstances does it wish to be disturbed. Ignorance is bliss has, it would seem, been replaced by "complacency is bliss."

There was a recent article on www.massresistance.org  that outlined much of the sodomite agenda for the near future and it didn't all have to do with just "gay" marriages. That was the foot in the door, the camel's nose in the tent. An article in the leftist Nation was cited for this information.

The massresistance article said: "The Nation article, "What's next for the LGBT movement" quotes four high-profile LGBT activists who reveal that 'gay marriage' was never their final goal.  The LGBT will not be stopping to rest, they say. Their plan is to delegitimize and crush all opposition to their agenda everywhere in America--particularly in the churches--no matter how small." So those naive Christians who think this will all just go away if they are "nice" to the sodomites have got a rude awakening coming. These people are trying to destroy your churches and your faith, folks, and you've got to wake up to that fact. Oh, I realize that will take some effort. Even though the Lord is in control of it all, you will still have to get out and DO something, unpleasant as that thought is.

According to the massresistance article this is their plan:
Dis-establish marriage--"Gay marriage was simply a stepping stone. Their actual goal is that there be no formal marriage rules at all. This means group marriages are next, then incestuous marriages, and even later marriages to minors. It would simply be up to the people directly involved to decide." And the next point on their agenda is to pass strong LGBT "non-discrimination" laws all over the country. It is duly noted that: "These are the laws that force bakers to bake 'gay marriage' cakes or face huge punishments.  Such laws would also force schools to include LGBT indoctrination.  Most states still do not have the onerous laws the LGBT movement demands. The activists refer to those states (mostly in the South and Midwest) as 'zones without rights' in their propaganda."

And next on their agenda is the banning of all "religious liberty" laws. "They consider religious liberty to be a dangerous ploy to 'undermine all civil rights laws'  that must be stopped at all costs. All people must be forced to follow the LGBT agenda, with no exceptions. And to aid them in doing this they have to "Demonize pro-family conservatives and silence all dissent.  They plan to direct massive amounts of funds to 'expose and defeat the right wing' across America."

And finally, they plan a radical political agenda. "They plan to leverage their power to support Marxist economic policies, the right to 'early term abortion' and similar policies." So all this is really where they are headed and where they will take the country, with the blessing of the Ruling Establishment, unless Christians wake up and smell the coffee. Interestingly, Karl Marx, in the Communist Manifesto plainly stated: "But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."

Well, not quite, Karl. What you have proposed here is not really "new." It goes all the way back to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, chapter 3, where the serpent beguiles man by telling him that if he just eats the forbidden fruit he shall be "as gods, knowing good and evil." That's the real beginning for Communism and those of its adherents that do not repent of it--a "gift" from the serpent. And man, today, still has not learned. He still seeks to be "as God" and makes his own rules apart from God's Law. For this our country is under severe judgment--and most of the church sleeps on! And the LGBT crowd pushes their blatant anti-Christian agenda and will continue to push it until the Church stands up and says NO! Unfortunately, we are not ready to do that yet. We want to try "being nice" one more time, even though it won't ever work, because it's so much easier than standing up and fighting for what we should be.

This good lady in Kentucky sits in jail because she stood up and said NO to evil. Will the Church support her? I hope she doesn't have to hold her breath waiting to find out.