At a time when polling reveals that more and more young adults, who never lived under communist regimes, are showing favorable opinions of socialism, leaders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are trying to stop this trend, by requiring that the history of communism be taught in schools.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) praised DeSantis for signing legislation that requires schools to teach the history of communism and ensure that Americans don’t forget how people have suffered under the various communist regimes.
Florida has many residents who fled Cuba’s communist regime and know “the suffering, the depravity, the poverty that people are forced into, the loss of freedom of speech, the loss of freedom of religion, how they pushed to change your culture, and it concerns them,” Blackburn said in a May 19 interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report.”…