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Flawed education leaves young Americans clueless about threats to freedom. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,” President Reagan once said. One can only imagine how he would have reacted to the first “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism,” a recent poll by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOCMF).
I know some people like to pile on millennials. But when one third of these young Americans say they believe more people were killed under President George W. Bush than under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, it’s hard not to speak up.
Some of the problem, ironically, can be blamed on the fact that we won the Cold War. Those who lived through, say, the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and the “Mutually Assured Destruction” era of the ‘70s and ‘80s naturally have a deeper antipathy toward communism than those who learn about it from history books.