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By Michael Hernandez, 4-14-24
(Editor’s Note: A response to Alex Newman: “Saving our Freedoms while Rescuing our Children” written by George Miller and posted April 11, 2024: https://www.citizensjournal.net/writer-alex-newman-comes-to-nassau-saving-our-freedoms-while-rescuing-our-children/.)
When “well-known Conservative author, writer and speaker Alex Newman came to Nassau County on April 4 to speak on the state of public education in America today” he eloquently mentioned some key facts on millennials (born 1981 to 1996):
- 70 percent of millennials say they are likely to vote socialist
- 36 percent of millennials view communism favorably
- Poll: Millennials become the first non-Christian majority generation in US history
Miller writes that Newman claims that “Globalists, utopians, socialists, totalitarians and the UN are using public schools to undermine freedom and Christianity.”
It is Generation Z—Zoomers (born between 1997 and 2012 and children of millennials) that are being targeted by Democrats to win the 2024 presidential elections. See April 2 story from The Epoch Times by Kevin Stocklin: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/behind-election-rhetoric-democrats-utilize-key-strategy-to-win-2024-post-5614923.
A key fact: America’s students help elect Biden in key swing states in 2020 as foot soldiers in the get-out-the vote drives with the U.S. Department of Education paying college students to register voters through Federal Work Study programs with the stated goal: “fighting for gender equity, social justice and more.”
More than 10 million students were signed up in 2020. Colleges are reminded of the federal requirement to receive federal student aid program “for civic engagement work” via Biden Executive Order 14019.
According to a 2020 Pew Research survey: the single largest voter gap in favor of Democrats was white-college educated women of whom 62 percent voted for Democrats versus 34 percent who voted Republican.
A CIRCLE report found that among the highest states for youth voter turnout were Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Nevada and Georgia. In Michigan and Pennsylvania, 36.5 percent and 31.7 percent of resident under the age of 29 voted in 2022. In Oregon, 355 percent vote.
What caused the young voter shift?
A 2020 report by the National Association of Scholars found that Democrat-registered professors outnumber Republican-registered professors by a ratio of 10-1, a gap that has widened from 4.5 to 1 in 1999. Research since World War II has consistently found overwhelmingly left-oriented political attitudes and ideological self-identification among college and university faculty.
A 2012 Department of Education sponsored report called “A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future” sparked the creation of a partnership between Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education and the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC)—America’s largest student data aggregator.
The National Student Clearinghouse was originally established in 1993 to house data for student loan servicing but over time evolved into the central hub for extensive personal data on high school and college students. In 2007, the NSC received a grant from the Gates Foundation for a student tracking study.
Today, the National Student Clearinghouse receives student information from 3,550 colleges and universities and 22,000 high school which represent 97 percent of college students and 70 percent of high school students in the United States. This led to the creation of the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE) to which schools submit voting information on their students which then is provided to a voting organization (student names, addresses, and dates of birth).
A 2023 Verity Vote report claims that university officials disclose “highly sensitive private student data to a partisan private corporation that works exclusively with Democrats and progressives” with funding in 2006 from George Soros.
According to Wisconsin Voter Alliance President Ron Heuer: “They are using our facilities paid for by U.S. taxpayers, and employees of our universities to run this whole scheme and presidents of universities across the nation have all signed on to this thing.”
Investigation of young voters at the University of Wisconsin Parkside campus showed 10 different 501 c3s involved. The non-profits included: Civic Nation, the Andrew Goodman Foundation, Vote.org, Ask Every Student, Voces de la Frontera, and the American Democracy Project. At the University of Wisconsin Superior, votes cast exceeded prior registered voters by 10 times with some state candidates receiving 82 and 89 percent of the votes.
It is Generation Z—the children of millennials that will set the future destiny of America. Will we choose to reach them?
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Michael Hernandez, a Shasta County, CA resident, is co-founder of the Citizens Journal—Ventura County’s online news service. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor. Mr. Hernandez can be contacted at [email protected].
