Many of us are familiar with the story about the frog and the frying pan.  If you slowly turn up the heat, a frog in a frying pan won’t notice it is being cooked until it is too late. 

While America was basking in the “warmth,” of the post cold war, the liberals were taking over our institutions.  We now have a media, newspapers, major networks, public broadcasting, universities and state houses, all run by the Left.  Even the judiciary is inundated with Left leaning individuals.  The Left cannot get a majority of Americans to vote in their “progressive” agenda, so they plan to legislate and through enacted laws, develop an America they envision and a new world order.

Fact is, America has already lost much of its standing in the world, and virtually all of its prestige in the eyes of the less fortunate around the globe, not because of something America did, but rather because the enemies of America, right here inside of America, want their own country to be held in scorn and disdain by the rest of the world. 

Naturally, for most Americans that appears to be a self-defeating agenda.  However, on closer examination it falls in lockstep to the Leftist notion of one nation, one world.  America cannot stand out as a leader if the Left is to achieve “oneness” among all of earth’s inhabitants.  So, rather than trying to elevate others to America’s level, the Left has determined it better to lower America’s standing.

Unfortunately, the democrats have grabbed the baton and are running with it.  The Left has based their strategy on the notion that America is a racist, imperialist nation out to conquer all others.  They won’t say it straight out, they couldn’t and still hope to win anything more than a local seat in government.  Instead, they have infiltrated various state governments, and the judiciary to pass laws which in effect give credence to their unstated agenda.

Is it any wonder that for the first time in the history of the United States, democrats are filibustering President Bush’s judicial nominations?  Forget “advise and consent,” the democrats are bound and determined to ensure a judiciary, especially a Supreme Court, that is Left friendly. 

University professors in the latest poll are overwhelming in their support of Leftist ideals.  Colleges and universities across the country are turning out a group of graduates inundated with the Left’s vision of what America is.  Virtually every institution of higher education in the United States has classes in various studies of different ethnic groups.  All of these classes espouse the virtues of the group they are teaching about.  Now, some schools have begun classes regarding whites.  These classes are unlike their counterparts, they bash whites as a “privileged” class who dominated others through force.

On a recent MSNBC airing of Scarborough Country, Joe Scarborough interviewed a professor who is teaching some of America’s young on “Whiteness Studies.” Doctor Arlene Avakian teaches a whiteness course at the University of Massachusetts, and told Mr. Scarborough, America “is a white supremacist country.”  Adding, that America is not the best country on earth, rather “if you look at the Scandinavian countries, they are way far light-years ahead of us. If you look at many of the European countries, they are way far ahead of us. There is no question about it.”  For the professor, for many of America’s teachers, America is a country we all need to be ashamed of.  In spite of the fact that Scandinavia and Europe would all be under Germany’s Nazi rule had it not been for America.  The good professor wants us all to only see what she wants us to see.

It is natural to react with questioning why these professors choose to remain in the United States if it is such a horrid country, but that would only be an appropriate question if the professors believed what they were teaching; they do not.  If they did, it is obvious that no one is holding their passports and preventing them from leaving, yet they choose to stay. 

The fact is, they have an agenda.  They need to teach another generation of Americans that America is not great.  They need to export that notion to various other peoples around the world so as to instill anger at the United States.  They need to inculcate Americans to believe it is us who have it wrong when we believe America is the greatest country on earth, and those that hate America have good reason to feel that way. 

No one is bringing up the obvious fact that virtually all the people around the world who hate America have had no actual contact with America.  Why would a farmer in Khartoum have any strong feelings against America?  Why would a civil servant in Southern Luxembourg care one bit about American history or present intentions?  They would not, unless told otherwise.  Think about it.  How many people in Montana or Pennsylvania have strong feelings, good or bad, about the general population living in Kiribati?  As a people we would only feel strongly if we were told to feel strongly.  Mostly, we could care less.  However, even not caring is held against an America that as far as the Left is concerned needs to be brought down a few pegs. 

Basically, America is too prosperous a nation with too many talented people.  Unfortunately, the Left is seeing that that does not remain the case.  The Left has had control of our educational institutions for decades now and the dumbing down process began in earnest years ago.  We already have rocket scientists who can’t figure out how and when to convert from miles to kilometers and caused two Mars probes to crash.  We have paleontologists who have forgotten what theories are and have made pronouncements about the end of the dinosaurs as if it were fact.  We have prevailing theories about DDT, global warming, and even second hand smoke in spite of actual evidence to the contrary.

While we all were taught to revere the medical profession; anyone know of a disease that is actually cured by doctors?  We all make fun of the fact that “they” can’t even cure the common cold, but can “they” cure measles, chicken pox, mumps, or any common disease that doesn’t have a bacterial component in a consistent and overwhelming manner?  How about a cure for arthritis or muscular dystrophy? 

Since penicillin and the related antibiotics in the fifties, can anyone name a childhood disease that is cured by medicines, and not just vaccinated against?  How about a disease that has been cured by medicine in the last 30 years?  Just a note, Edward Jenner developed an effective vaccine against smallpox in 1796.  Nowadays we seem content with vaccines and better ways of finding out what is killing us (diagnostics), rather than the actual curing of disease, but we are consistently told, “we are on the brink of discovery,” or the best;  if we walk a few miles, we are doing our part to cure breast cancer.  It is more likely that our walking and matching funds will be putting in a new pool for a researcher rather than finding a cure for anything.  A medical “breakthrough” today is a new drug that helps alleviate some symptoms and even may shorten the duration of a disease, but no one seems to be saying “cure” in any of their sentences describing any medical “breakthrough.”

Basically, we don’t expect as much as we should, and the medical profession lives down to our standards.  Of course you can point out the fact that Europeans and others have not found any cures for anything either, but that assumes we are no better than they are, which is what anti-Americanism is all about.  Then there are our technology pros.  

European nations are virtually inundated with nuclear power, but America is in effect prevented from developing the same, yet the Europeans are applauded for their clean environments, and America condemned because of the state and condition of it’s environment.

America is in a war against terrorism, and we will win against the people that fly planes into buildings, but, in the war against a far more dangerous and insidious enemy – Americans who see our borders as a barrier to their goal of eliminating America’s present standing, we may not have a chance.