If you want to understand how the horrible social changes in this country are possible, look at education, from pre-school through graduate work.

Political correctness is taught and practiced in our schools and it takes many forms. One form is to create a word that obfuscates what you are trying to say in order to not offend. Once everyone figures out what you mean, the word is changed. Mark Steyn obviously missed this lesson and is paying for it.

Who did this? Socialists, of course. Luckily, I did not attend college right out of high school as all of my friends did. All of this was just getting started by the time I graduated from high school in 1970. Colleges took it up full force. I used to hear some people praising socialism and its merits. I didn't understand it or know a thing about it. But what happened to them I later discovered was brainwashing to the greatest degree.

Over time I have realized that the more intelligent people are, the easier it seems to be to brainwash them. I dropped in and out of education over the years and each time I saw great strides toward socialism and social engineering taking the place of real education. I became a teacher and the trainings we are required to take are more and more political - and extremely anti-white, as well as anti-assimilationist.

Recently I was hired to teach a course on diversity in education. The book did not address how to teach minorities at all, as it seemed to indicate. Instead, it was all about reprogramming white kids to accept that their day is done, they've been privileged and now need to accept the fact that it is someone else's turn to succeed in society and have the rewards for it, even if they never earn them. The book embraces the credo "From each, according to his or her ability, to each according to his or her needs." Straight out of Karl Marx.

The book also teaches that we must not require diverse groups to assimilate - they must remain intact and must not be required to learn our language or ways. We must not teach patriotism; we must not allow any religious expression in schools. We must teach children social justice. What does that mean? It means redistribution of wealth. It teaches that we must not rely on equal opportunity; oh no. We must strive for equal results. It teaches that a meritocracy is bad; people must not be rewarded for their efforts. They must be rewarded just because they exist.

The book teaches that we must always teach with every culture in mind; we must not set aside a special time to recognize a different culture. We must somehow incorportate every single culture represented in the classroom into each and every lesson. (It fails to say how to do this.)

I could go on and on. Look, Adolf Hitler realized that the most effective way to change Germany was to change the children through education. And he did it. Our kids have been programmed for many, many years. Because education is centralized - we have a national department of education - mandates are handed down that all schools must follow.

Our kids no longer learn enough about basics in reading, writing, and math because they have to learn the political and social engineering material as well. The scariest thing I find is when I try to talk about this to other teachers, they just do not see it. They have been in that system since they left high school and got into college, then to work. It happened to them very subtly and they did not even know it. This kind of brainwashing seems to include creating a wall between your mind and your ability to discern anything outside the reality they've given you.

I predict that if this continues, the days of conservatives ever winning elections is fast coming to an end. We are fast becoming a socialist nation. If you ever wonder what that will look like, read George Orwell's "Animal Farm." In a milieu like that, it makes sense that people like Al Gore can scream at everyone to reduce their carbon emissions while he creates enough for a small city. "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal."

I feel like this insanity is happening right under people's noses and no one sees it, except a few like me; we are like that boy who said, "The emperor has no clothes!" If left unchecked much longer, there is no hope things will ever be as they were again. It is probably already too late.

As a woman, I have experienced similar problems that other minorities have in this country. Throughout the world women are considered lower than cattle or dogs in some cultures, as vessels of procreation in others, and as property up until the early part of the 20th century in this country.

Yet, I do not believe special concessions or focusing on my victim status serves me. I vigorously reject any "victim" title. I know that I create my own reality.

If minority groups want to hang onto their anger and continue to loudly proclaim victim status, they will continually find themselves in exactly the position they are looking for.

Women have sought and gained many concessions, and things are much better for us today. I believe that the Republican party is much better for any minority group than the Democratic party is for one main reason - the Democrats depend on angry minority members to vote for them because they remain angry and always want something done. The Republican party does not care what color you are; they care what you do and expect that you will do your part to elevate yourself and earn what you get. The Democrats are extremely color-conscious. The Republicans care much more about what you actually do and race has nothing to do with that.

Attempting to shame successful minority members for daring to succeed is a thinly disguised effort to keep those who succeed from showing everyone else that minority groups no longer need special concessions and are no longer victims - unless they choose to continue to remain victims.

Ranting, raving, and indignantly complaining about being a victim never solves the problem, but it sure absolves the one doing it from actually having to make an effort to change and improve his or her own life. Saying that those who stop buying the Democrat lie about being victims are "acting white" is a shameful attempt to keep them down; if they succeed, it means that a victim's reality may be based on a lie. Hmmm....

We do not need leaders in this country who are race-focused, or gender-focused. We need a leader who represents and serves every race and both genders. The Democratic party is in turmoil because they are more focused on "the first woman president," or "the first black president," rather than "the most qualified, most capable leader to be president." If being a certain race or gender is the most important characteristic of a Democratic presidential candidate, I want NOTHING to do with such a strange, mixed-up political party.

While the Democrats are in such a tizzy, making bigger and more embarrassing messes with their politics, the Republicans are quietly preparing for the big day. Barak speaks eloquently about the hungry winds of change, or insults our allies but, other than that, he says nothing. His greatest claim to experience is "organizing community activities." Wow, that inspires confidence. Hillary is focused on ruining our health care system and agonizing over how to attack Obama without sounding racist, but says virtually nothing. We're going to listen to that for four years?

Do something different this year, you who are in minority groups. Vote Republican. See if you feel a bit better with more money in your pocket, real opportunity to improve your lives, and the feeling that you really don't have to be a victim. You might love the change!