America's youth has been successfully brainwashed to support the left and elect liberals like President Barack Obama — but Republicans are partially to blame for it happening, outspoken conservative pundit Michelle Malkin tells
Newsmax TV.
"We have generations and generations of kids who have been absolutely brainwashed by social justice warriors who see their primary mission as turning our kids into the next generation of junior lobbyists and Democratic voters rather than inculcating them with sound American values and knowledge," Malkin said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."
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"It's not just Common Core, it's everything that came before that. No Child Left Behind and outcome-based education. And who do we have to blame for this? Here we get into politics because it's not just the left; they could not do this by themselves.
"They had to do it in cahoots with big government Republicans who've helped them and enabled them every step of the way. That's what accounts for things like Common Core, that's what accounts for things like all of these disgraceful government bail outs."
She said it was "unfortunately" President George W. Bush who "pre-socialized this economy for Barack Obama."
"And when you have these generations of young Americans who have no clue about what it takes, the work, and the amount of individual creativity and individual initiative that is responsible for success in America....''
Malkin — author of,
"Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs," published by Mercury Ink — said Obama's "You didn't build that" speech which singled out wealthy business owners is an example of "this poisonous, cancerous, progressive agenda of humiliating and shaming people who are financially successful."
"[It] has to stop. So when I started the book, I was very angry. And I joke about this in the introduction. But what it turns into was a very joyful celebration of unsung American inventors and entrepreneurs," she said.
"Of course, Obama will pay grudging lip service to, oh, people who came before us that deserve the credit. But he's not talking about the Founding Fathers....
"They would roll over in their grave knowing that the man who's living in the White House openly denigrates people who have achieved. That is the essence of the American Dream and one of the reasons why I'm so motivated to go out there and preach the gospel of our free market economy and capitalism."
Malkin also lit into NBC News' Chuck Todd, who she believes did not aggressively grill Sen. Bernie Sanders on "Meet the Press" over a controversial 1972 essay the Democratic presidential candidate wrote suggesting women have rape fantasies.
"Meet the lapdog," she said of Todd. "All of these same Democrats who were screaming 'war on women, war on women' during the last election cycle are all tumbling and fumbling all over themselves to defend this socialist pervert. Seriously."
During the interview, the Vermont lawmaker told Todd:
"This is a piece of fiction that I wrote in 1972, I think. That was 43 years ago. It was very poorly written. If you read it, it was dealing with gender stereotypes. Why some men like to oppress women. Why other women like to be submissive. You know, something like 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' Very poorly written. Forty-three years ago."
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