And I, personally, am blaming the public schools as well as the teachers unions and politicians who have valued teacher contracts over student well-being, and indoctrination over education.

A recent study sponsored by Washington, D.C.-based organization Common Core revealed that almost 20 percent of 1,200 American teens could not identify the American enemy in World War II, and more than 25 percent mistakenly believed that Columbus sailed to America after 1750. Half did not know whom Sen. Joseph McCarthy investigated.

And just think: This is our next generation of voters.

I once read somewhere that a key element of tyranny is a distracted, uneducated population.  I’m not normally a cynical person, but one can’t help but be worried.  Especially as the government acts to stop parents from taking this problem into their own hands.