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So help me, I’m going to show this cartoon from almost eighty years ago until I’m blue in the face, if that’s what it takes to stop people from drinking Ism!

It was in 2009 when I first came across “Make Mine Freedom”, a 1948 educational film produced by Harding College.  I was immediately struck by how prophetic this animated short was.  How it warned against the dangers of socialism.  “Ism” is a blight that corrupts and destroys everything that it touches.

Not for the first time, not for the last, there are people in this country trying to sell “Ism” to us.  But it is a bitter elixir that will do naught but poison us and rob us and our children of precious liberty.

America
is not perfect.  It never has been.  It never will be.  We have made
mistakes along the way, just as any other nation
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Just over fifty years ago, Harding College produced a series of films “to create a deeper understanding” of American culture. This one, Make Mine Freedom, has been “re-discovered” in recent days and is making the rounds quite a bit across the Internet. Personally, I found it to be uncannily prophetic about the country we are living in today. Perhaps we should begin considering the wisdom of the past.

Here is Make Mine Freedom…

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