School Choice Counters Fascist Educational Tactics While Medical Freedom Faces New Threats

On Friday, October 14, 2022, Kim Monson welcomes three guests to examine the troubling parallels between modern institutional tactics and historical fascism. Featured author Allen Thomas makes the case that school choice represents an anti-fascist response to centralized educational control, State Board of Education candidate Peggy Probst discusses the importance of parental rights in education, and Army veteran Pam Long exposes the emerging triad of medical fascism in American healthcare.

Why School Choice Counters Fascist Educational Tactics

Start listening at 32:00 – Hour 1

Allen Thomas draws stark parallels between Nazi Germany’s educational tactics and modern progressive education policies. His essay examines three key areas where historical fascism mirrors current trends: the injection of racial ideology into curriculum through programs like Critical Race Theory, the systematic rewriting of textbooks to align with political agendas, and the enforcement of ideological conformity among teachers.

Thomas argues that Hitler’s racial awareness training bears uncomfortable similarities to modern diversity training programs that categorize people as oppressors or oppressed based on immutable characteristics. He notes that Nazi Germany rewrote textbooks to inject racial content even into mathematics, while today’s 1619 Project and revised civics standards reshape historical narratives.

The essay’s central thesis holds that supporting school choice represents the opposite of fascism by decentralizing educational control and returning power to parents. Thomas encourages parents accused of fascism for questioning school curricula to recognize that advocating for educational freedom actually counters authoritarian tactics.

“Being for decentralized education is not fascist. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It’s anti-fascist.”

Allen Thomas, Featured Author

State Board of Education’s Critical Role in Protecting Parental Rights

Start listening at 17:52 – Hour 1

Peggy Probst, candidate for State Board of Education representing Congressional District 8, brings six years of prior board experience to her campaign. She returns to public service after witnessing Colorado’s reading proficiency rates plummet from 60 percent to approximately 40 percent over the past 12 years.

Probst emphasizes that the State Board serves as the final arbiter for charter school appeals when local districts deny applications. She cites the board’s recent party-line vote denying a charter school in Durango as evidence that elections have consequences for educational choice. The board’s upcoming November vote on civics and history standards, which some critics say include activist elements, underscores the stakes.

Recounting that Jared Polis launched his political career with a State Board of Education victory by just 90 votes in 2000, Probst urges voters to recognize these races’ outsized impact on Colorado’s future.

“People are very upset. They have had a belly full of their kids being indoctrinated in our classrooms. They want to get back to the basics.”

Peggy Probst, State Board of Education Candidate

Medical Fascism Emerges Through California Law and Federal Policy

Start listening at 70:03 – Hour 2

Pam Long, a former Army Medical Service Corps captain and West Point graduate, outlines what she calls the triad of medical fascism that emerged in September 2022. The first pillar involves California’s Assembly Bill 2098, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, which threatens physicians with license revocation for contradicting government-approved medical orthodoxy.

Long explains that the bill’s language defines misinformation as anything contradicting contemporary scientific consensus, effectively allowing politicians to determine medical truth. She notes the American Medical Association has announced plans to promote similar legislation in all 50 states.

The second pillar involves President Biden’s executive order on biotechnology and biomanufacturing, which Long characterizes as promoting transhumanism and a surveillance-based bioeconomy. She warns that the order’s language about writing circuitry for cells and programming biology like software represents dangerous government overreach into human enhancement.

“We need to say no from the start, from the order, from the illegal order or from the violation of the Constitution. And we need to build that civil disobedience muscle.”

Pam Long, Former Army Captain and Medical Freedom Advocate