To the editor:

Wake up, America. This, which taxpayers paid nearly a million dollars to hear, is what President Donald Trump said in the shadow of Mount Rushmore, “celebrating” the Fourth of July:

“In our schools … there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. …

“Make no mistake. This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. … The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities … is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education.

“Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that (they) were villains. The radical view of American history is a web of lies, all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.”

Does what our nation’s leader said sound like the teachers you had? Like the friends you grew up with who became teachers? Like your children’s teachers? If the answer is no, realize we are on the cusp of a dangerous moment in American history.

Sounds more like Hitler to me. 

Ken Youngblood

Saranac Lake