By now, everyone is familiar with the viral video of a school official from the Vanguard School in Colorado Springs who told a student and his mother that the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag symbolized slavery and was, therefore, racist. It garnered the typical outrage from conservatives and Republicans every time something like this happens.
Disbelief and shock were abundant in political commentary and social media. How could a college-educated school official responsible for teaching the nation’s youth be so woefully uninformed and claim the Gadsden flag was racist?
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The answer has everything to do with the culture war — the very culture war that former vice presidential candidate, former speaker of the House, former congressman, and current Fox Corporation Board of Directors member Paul Ryan wantonly dismissed in June. It’s a problem that Republicans have been making for decades, yet they continue to act surprised when incidents such as the one in Colorado Springs keep happening. The continued reluctance by many Republicans to acknowledge, let alone actively resist, the culture war is to blame for much of this.
Liberals, Democrats, and other activists on the Left have controlled the information in education for decades. During this time, millions of students have gone through elementary, middle, and high school in the country’s public education and were brainwashed with the radical, ultra-left-wing Howard Zinn 1619 Project version of history. This involved indoctrinating generations of children to believe the country was built on racism and white supremacy. In 2023, yesterday’s students are today’s teachers, passing these things on to the current generation.
There should be little surprise that an educated professional made such an outlandish claim to a child. Such things regularly happen in schools and classrooms throughout the country. Unfortunately, they usually don’t have a strong and attentive parent there to record it. Instead, such radical ideas are typically left unchallenged, and teachers use them to brainwash students’ minds. That is why the culture war is so important and why comments such as Paul Ryan’s saying he is "not a culture war guy" are so frustrating. Ryan’s impotence, and other Republicans like him, regarding the culture war caused incidents like the one in Colorado.
Children’s minds are vulnerable and susceptible to what they are taught in classrooms. Among many other problematic things, today's students are taught to hate Republicans, God, religion, freedom of speech, capitalism, and other cherished American values that people such as Ryan claim to love. It's mainly why many schools have students who cannot achieve basic math, reading, writing, and science proficiency but know about systemic inequalities and microaggressions.
This is what happens when Republicans refuse to be "culture war guys." Such impotence makes one wonder if they ever shared the values of the people whose vote they sought or merely told them what they wanted to hear just to get elected. All the tax cuts, trickle-down economics, and fiscal policies that Ryan cherishes will repeatedly fail against a culture of indoctrination that prioritizes teaching students the nation is racist. Ryan's flippant arrogance regarding the culture war is illogical. The culture war is to blame, and the Left has dominated it for decades.
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A Colorado educator responsible for teaching today's youth wrongly told a student the Gadsden flag was racist. She didn't come out of the womb naturally supporting such ideas. She was imbued with them long ago and wanted to poison other students' minds into believing her toxic schooling. A parent's recording exposed her; imagine how many get away with saying such things without being recorded. It is why the "culture war" is so important — and why it is frustrating to hear Republicans when they say it doesn't matter.
Until Republicans such as Paul Ryan get some courage, it’s only a matter of time until the next Gadsden flag incident occurs — if it hasn’t already. And if they don't learn to challenge it soon, they will eventually become a distant memory, just like the original American spirit exemplified by the Gadsden flag.