I know it started long before I began following the Common Core epidemic, but it was there in spades in Obama’s first term.  It was the bookmark I found in the children’s section of the gift shop that was “The Pledge of Allegiance to the Earth” replacing our national pride in one country under God with Mother Earth.

Back then I related it to ‘The old sciences, the old words and meanings, the old assumptions, expectations, and the old virtues and religions…’ as we saw it play out in the takeover of our education system.  But we cannot ignore our Old Ideas and Customs that include our nation’s heritage, its founding, and our reverence for our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.