In the wake of the tragic Oklahoma bombing, most
Americans realized that unthinkable violence could touch anyone at any time.
But some citizens had to face a more personal reality: The deadly explosion
had given government and media leaders the crisis they needed to justify merging
a vast and varied mix of "malcontents" into the singular group labeled the
Radical Right.
They might as well have been called the enemy of the people. Day after day,
the media's accusing pens pointed to suspected foes of American togetherness -- those
whose "enraged rhetoric" had created a national "climate of hate and paranoia."
They ranged from "rabid" radio hosts and armed "extremists" to concerned Christian
parents. "Their coalition," said Time, "included well known-elements
of far-right thought: tax protesters, Christian homeschoolers, conspiracy theorists...
and self-reliant types who resent a Federal Government that seems to favor grizzly
bears and wolves over humans..."1 All were implicated, for
all had questioned the government's growing control over local schools, private
property, and personal lives.
Emotional appeals work. It's easier
to shout, "Stop spreading hate!" than to encourage rational debate. It's more
effective to discredit discerning citizens by linking them to violent anarchists
than to give factual answers to legitimate questions. It's quicker to invalidate
unwanted information by tying it to wild
speculations than to provide honest responses--especially
when the truth would expose plans best kept hidden. History has shown that nothing
crushes well-informed resistance faster than well-planned disinformation and
false accusations. Nothing unifies a nation faster than a common enemy.
Hitler knew those lessons well. He had watched the Bolshevik Revolution. His book, Mein Kampf,
explains the winning strategies to any future revolutionary. Notice his insight
into group psychology:
"The art of truly great popular leaders
in all ages has consisted chiefly in not distracting the attention of the
people, but concentrating always on a single adversary....
It is part of a great leader's genius to make even widely separated adversaries
appear as if they belonged to one category, because... the recognition of
various enemies all too easily marks the beginning of doubt of one's own
rightness."2
Hitler focused his fury on an influential, well
educated ethnic group whose religious beliefs opposed his own. "It was a stroke
of genius on the part of Hitler to find this common denominator in the Jew,"
explains the Encyclopaedia Britannica. "This enabled him to discover
the Jew behind all his changing adversaries... in short, behind everybody and
everything that at a given moment opposed his wishes or aroused his wrath."3
Long before the Oklahoma bombing, political and
educational change agents had found their common enemy in the medley of "malcontents"
they called the Radical Right. Like Hitler's Jews, this diverse mix represented
politically incorrect religious values. The Oklahoma explosion added new intensity
and plausible justification to the growing hostility, and the public quickly
echoed the media rhetoric.
"There is a dedicated, very well organized, very
well financed movement in America that is very anti-public schools, very anti-government,
very anti-tax," said Lew Finch, the superintendent of schools in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. "The ultimate example of that sentiment is the bombing of the federal
building in Oklahoma City."
4
Finch's revolutionaries were Christian parents,
those who supposedly want "all schools" to "be controlled by the church--their
church." Like many progressive educators, he felt hampered by parents who resist
two key parts of the new education system mandated through Goals 2000: (1) the
psychological strategies for changing their children's beliefs and values and
(2) their government's plan to expand the educational bureaucracy through national
standards and tests that emphasize attitudes, not academics.
Across the country, educators battling "the agenda
of the Radical Right" express similar paranoia toward concerned parents. In
state after state, leaders organize conferences to identify opposition groups,
analyze their tactics, and plan counter-action.
5 Many follow
the suggestions from Ronald Havelock's book, The Change Agent's Guide to
Innovation in Education. "[T]ry to identify resisters before they become
vocal and committed," he wrote. "Resisters, like innovators, should be judged
for relative sophistication and influence."6
A report titled "Primer on the Extremist Attacks
on Public Education," teaches educators to do just that. Prepared by the California
Teachers' Association, it also lists specific strategies for defeating "Extreme
Right Groups" so that "the majority's moderate, more inclusive values may be
promoted and protected...."
7
It's hard for many Christians to understand this
hostility. Why are educators and politicians so angry at them? Why can't they
just teach basic academics?
Professor John Goodlad, an influential "change
agent" in the global as well as national arena, answers that question. He warned
his fellow educators that "most youth still hold the same values as their parents....
If we do not alter this pattern, if we don't resocialize.... our society may
decay."
8
"Paradigm shifts are complicated," said Chester
Finn, who helped Lamar Alexander market America 2000 to the public. "But shift
we will."
9
To sell their radical agenda to the public, politicians,
and educators have become masters at manipulating information. "We have actually
been given a course in how not to tell the truth,"
said North Carolina school superintendent Dr. Jim Causby in his speech at the
1994 Annual Model Schools Conference in Atlanta. "How many of you are administrators?
You've had that course in public relations where you learn to put the best spin
on things."
10
Does Causby's admission sound familiar? "Spin
control" has become a daily task for White House staff and political news-makers.
New policies, plans, decisions... everything demands the right kind of marketing.
Many of those "spins" are used to mold public attitudes toward "radicals" who
oppose White House policies.
We shouldn't be surprised. The Bible tells us
that "the whole world is under the control of the evil one,"
11
and he has always despised God and His people. Today, as our culture shifts
to the global paradigm, political and educational "change agents" are turning
biblical values upside down. From the new paradigm perspective, God's people
look like inflexible radicals who oppose tolerance, unity and "academic freedom."
It makes sense to hush their voices and purge beliefs that block "progress"
toward the 21st Century global village.
Remember that throughout history, Satan has used
government leaders to persecute Christians and Jews. In fact, persecution is
a normal part of Christian life. "If they persecuted Me," said Jesus, "they
will also persecute you... because they do not know the One who sent Me." (John
15:20-21)
Hitler tolerated what he called "positive Christianity"
-- a government-controlled church movement that conformed to Nazi ideals. But
genuine Christianity was incompatible with Nazi loyalties. Actually, the Nazis
realized that sooner than most Christians.
12
Today, only
compromised, cross-less "Christianity" that blends with all the other spiritual
paths to "ultimate reality" is acceptable to America's new paradigm leaders.
Those who choose to follow the narrow path of obedience, surrender and intimacy
with Jesus will surely be viewed as the most repugnant of the so-called Radical
Right. But to those who know the joy of His presence and live in the light of
eternity, that won't matter at all.
13
Endnotes:
1 Philip Weiss, "Outcasts Digging
in for the Apocalypse," Time (May 1, 1995); 48. The last words of the quote
("on government land") were deleted since Time failed to mention the reason
for concern: the government land borders on farms where wolves attack domestic
animals, yet laws protecting wolves prohibit farmers from protecting their livestock.
2 Encylopaedia Britannica, Vol. 16, (Chicago: William Benton,
1968), 93-94.
3 Ibid.
4 Anne Carothers-Kay, "School chief fighting the radical right,"
Des Moines Register, May 4, 1995.
5 Joy Perry, "Workshop: "Responding Democratically to Opposition
Groups," Wisconsin Report, December 16, 1993, 1.
6 Ronald G. Havelock, The Change Agent's Guide to Innovation
in Education (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications, 1973);122.
7 Ibid., 19.
8 John Goodlad, "Report of Task Force C: Strategies for Change,"
Schooling for the Future, a report to the President's Commission on Schools
Finance, Issue #9, 1971.
9 Chester Finn, Jr., "The Biggest Reform of All," Phi Delta
Kappan (April 1990); 592.
10 Cynthia Weatherly, "The 2nd Annual Model School Conference,"
The Christian Conscience (January 1995); 36.
11 1 John 5:19
12 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16-95.
13 Matthew 5:10-12; Philippians 3:7-10; Psalm 27.
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