In the recent election, 68 percent of new young voters overwhelmingly chose to vote for Obama and the Democrats’ socialist agenda. That’s a scary statistic, but it’s no accident. It’s the result of a patient, long-term strategy on the part of leftist social reformers.

The majority of new voters were recent public school graduates and new university students. It’s no secret that the left controls government education in this country, especially the universities. Public education is a guaranteed assembly line for mass-market production of new liberal voters.

For too long, conservatives have felt comfortable in our numbers. The fact that the country appeared to be split almost exactly 50/50 between Republicans and Democrats seemed almost healthy, because it guaranteed “balance” and prevented the scary specter of one-party rule.

Meanwhile, liberals have been biding their time as they took over the public education system, which forms the hearts and minds of future voters. All these willing young minds have been filled with utopian ideals as their parents’ values are deemed “old fashioned,” conservatives are painted as “out of touch” and Democrats are hailed as compassionate social reformers, fighting for the rights of the common man. Religion is carefully left out of the historical record (except for negative examples such as the Salem Witch Trials) and is therefore deemed “unimportant” or a threat to progress.

If 68 percent of current new graduates are sympathetic to liberal ideology, it won’t be more than one or two election cycles before conservatives are flatly outnumbered and this country is hopelessly locked in one-ideology rule.

If you think I exaggerate, just look at Europe. Long after communism fell, the indoctrination of communist schools has left brainwashed citizens still willing to accept socialism as necessary for solving societies’ ills, and Americans aren’t far behind. Over half of American high school seniors can’t tell you the significance of the year 1776. Public schools have failed to teach them our history, Constitution, capitalism vs. socialism, or the fundamental principles upon which our free society is based. They have been taught that socialist societies in Europe are superior. A dumbed-down public is ripe for the picking. If we don’t stop the indoctrination of our youth, the next generation of voters will steer our country hopelessly to the left.

How are conservatives to stem the tide of deceit and indoctrination?

First, we must work to re-educate those young voters who have already passed through the system. We must use every method at our disposal to teach the truth about our history, our legacy and why the American Way is still the best. They deserve to know what the Founding Fathers’ true intent was when they drafted the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the three branches of government and established “separation of church and state.”

Secondly, we must attack the religious instruction that is taking place in public schools right now: Humanism. If an atheist parent can sue because his child is forced to hear the words “under God” in our Pledge of Allegiance, then Christian parents have more than justification to object to their children being indoctrinated with the religion of Secular Humanism. We must fight fire with fire and beat them at their own game.

Third, we need to address the most fundamental issue of all: Where in the Constitution does the federal government derive its power to control education? It’s not there. Socialized education has allowed government to usurp parental rights, mold the hearts and minds of our children and to create a new society eager to embrace socialism. If monopolies are forbidden in the free market, why have we allowed government to hold such a dangerous monopoly, unchallenged?

Some may ask, “Why challenge the public school system at all? We can send our kids to private schools, or homeschool, and it becomes a non-issue for our family.” That is the greatest deception of all. By all means, take your child out of public schools NOW. But don’t ignore the government-indoctrinated students who will soon outnumber your small brood. They will affect your family and your freedoms.

We must break the government monopoly of socialized education and indoctrination. We must open American schools up to free market competition and the freedom of ideas, and eliminate government control over our children’s futures. We, the people, must take back education! And we must do it NOW!