{"id":9133,"date":"2026-06-28T14:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:21:26","slug":"socialism-wins-elections-after-conquering-classrooms-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/socialism-wins-elections-after-conquering-classrooms-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialism wins elections after conquering classrooms first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The radical platforms now championed by progressive candidates\u2014abolishing borders, defunding police forces, seizing private property\u2014represent ideas that were systematically cultivated and rewarded in American classrooms long before they appeared on any ballot, as <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Kent Ingle<\/strong>, president of Southeastern University, argues that the electoral sphere serves merely as the final destination for concepts already victorious in lecture halls across the country. The ballot box, he contends, is the last stop rather than the first for radical ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The educational establishment&#8217;s transformation occurred while much of the church and faith-based education remained passive, treating classrooms as neutral ground and viewing education as a simple credentialing transaction. This approach ignored education&#8217;s fundamental purpose: formation of character and conviction.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9133 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26164111567922-e1782417197310-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26164111567922-e1782417197310-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26164111567922-e1782417197310-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26164111567922-e1782417197310.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9129'>\n\t\t\t\tPhoto: washingtonexaminer.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP25099777426571-Measles-Vax-300x215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP25099777426571-Measles-Vax-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP25099777426571-Measles-Vax-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP25099777426571-Measles-Vax.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9130'>\n\t\t\t\tPhoto: washingtonexaminer.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Feat.FlagBurn1.091025-300x197.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Feat.FlagBurn1.091025-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Feat.FlagBurn1.091025.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9131'>\n\t\t\t\tPhoto: washingtonexaminer.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Three Categories of American Higher Education<\/h2>\n<p>Ingle identifies three distinct types of institutions currently operating in American higher education. The first category comprises schools that surrendered to progressive ideology years ago and no longer conceal their stance. The second includes institutions maintaining their commitment to objective truth regardless of consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The largest and most consequential group, however, occupies the middle ground. These schools retain faith-based language in founding documents while quietly abandoning corresponding principles in practice. They employ traditional rhetoric on websites but make timid decisions behind the scenes, fearing the cost of standing firm on mission.<\/p>\n<p>This mission drift never begins with outright betrayal, Ingle warns. It starts with trembling and silence disguised as prudence, ultimately culminating in complete surrender.<\/p>\n<h2>Weaponizing Separation of Church and State<\/h2>\n<p>A frequently repeated claim keeps faith-based institutions silent: the assertion that religious voices must remain excluded from cultural conversations. The constitutional principle of separation of church and state gets wielded as a muzzle against Christian educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>That foundational protection was designed to shield the church from state control, not to protect government from the church&#8217;s moral voice. When constitutional safeguards become demands for silence, they cease functioning as legal principles and transform into political weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Ingle authored the book <em>College Without Communism<\/em> specifically to provide families with navigation tools through this cultural capture. The work&#8217;s premise centers on education&#8217;s proper purpose: forming people rather than processing them, pursuing truth instead of ideology, transmitting knowledge rather than indoctrination.<\/p>\n<h2>Standing for Christian Formation<\/h2>\n<p>Southeastern University made the deliberate choice to function unapologetically as a center for Christian life formation, standing with parents rather than working around them. Students grounded in truth and conviction prove far more resistant to ideological capture than those trained merely to comply.<\/p>\n<p>This approach requires clarity rather than hostility. Disagreement with the culture&#8217;s loudest voices can proceed without fear while treating every student as a person deserving formation rather than recruitment for external causes.<\/p>\n<p>The future of American education will not be determined by the most radical voices, which have maintained clarity about their objectives for years. Instead, the decisive factor will be whether leaders in the middle continue trembling or finally summon the courage to stand for the truth their own mission statements already proclaim.<\/p>\n<h2>Harvesting What Was Planted<\/h2>\n<p>This summer&#8217;s elections represent not the beginning of a political movement but the harvest of seeds planted in classrooms years earlier. Achieving a different harvest requires planting something different and defending it when standing firm carries real costs.<\/p>\n<p>Surrendering the classroom, Ingle concludes, places the nation&#8217;s future itself at risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian university president argues that socialist candidates&#8217; recent electoral success stems from two decades of ideological indoctrination in American classrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":9132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[8330,8328,2788,3088,8329,209],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-9133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-education-indoctrination","tag-kent-ingle","tag-progressive-politics","tag-socialism","tag-southeastern-university","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9134,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions\/9134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}