A word that is used rather frequently these days is “nationalist,” especially when people refer to President Donald Trump. That term is generally used as a pejorative to accuse Trump of viewing America as the nation superior to all others and the country that should dominate all others in every way imaginable.

This point of view is the result either of people who don’t understand Trump or those who deliberately attempt to gin up resentment and negative feelings toward the president. There are more than enough of both types of these folks to go around.

Trump has even adopted the term for himself, but his use of it is that of “patriotism,” or having strong positive feelings about America and a devotion to it. That is a position that every president must have.

Many of these folks who call Trump a nationalist are the polar opposite of that mistaken image of Trump; they are globalists. They are One World Government types who work toward a massive control mechanism that everyone on the earth must obey. It would be like the United Nations on steroids.

If your initial reaction to that idea is, “That’s not going to work. There are too many nations with different ideas of how things should be,” you have a point.

Sure, some nations will willingly go along, like Germany and others elsewhere on the globe. The United States, however, has for its entire history done things its own way and been very successful in doing so. To most clear-thinking Americans, globalism is not on their bucket list, though it may be at the bottom of a trash bucket.

The only way the U.S. will be a part of a world government is if we are forcibly made to conform or are subverted into subservience. Through such a process, strong social elements gradually are taken over and used to feed propaganda to the public. We see the news media and education systems now being transformed from their fundamental beneficial purposes to these socialist tools.

The global warming/climate change mania is another area that is used to gently induce Americans to accept the concepts of global government through scare tactics of impending global doom. People believe this despite the highly blemished record of the climate change faction that includes outright fraud. Recently, another fallacy in this leftist demagoguery was discovered.

A scientific paper published last month in the world’s premier scientific journal Nature suggested ocean temperatures have risen roughly 60% higher than estimated. That’s scary, and numerous mainstream media outlets widely and uncritically reported this finding.

However, mathematician Nic Lewis easily caught an error in this study. Despite the paper being automatically trusted and published in the journal, “a quick review of the first page of the paper was sufficient to raise doubts as to the accuracy of its results,” Lewis said. The authors have acknowledged their “error.” Have you heard about this in the mainstream media?

Americans were once a group of strong, independent, self-determining men and women. We find many now who are well down the pothole-infested road to surrendering to the socialist pap that grows so quickly, being well fertilized by feel-good leftist propaganda.

Their susceptibility to such venom is in large part the result of failing critical social systems: the family, education, and the information media.

The strong, nurturing nuclear family is in shambles, and our natural defenses against dopey ideas have been weakened through professional malfeasance in the other areas.

The agenda media, that part of the news media with a clear political purpose in all it says and does, misinforms and denies important information to the public by cherry-picking news items. Such actions clearly justify President Trump’s declaring this group “the enemy of the people.”

Many teachers, especially in elite colleges and universities, apparently failed or skipped their Integrity 101 class. Rather than helping students learn basic subject matter, they believe it’s more important that they help them learn how to think “correctly.”

Public education at the K-12 level helps in this effort. For some unexplained reason, there is less, or little, emphasis on teaching American history and civics, wherein students learn about their government, how it works, and why it was established as it was.

Consequently, one or more generations of Americans are uneducated or miseducated about the fundamental principles and mechanisms of their country, which are essential to understanding America and appreciating it for all that it is.

Is it any wonder that so many are able to be deceived and accept notions that are contrary to the country’s principles and best interest? These folks are prime targets for the platitudes of the leftist globalist puffery.

Much of this degeneration began back in the ‘60s and got a boost during the catastrophic Obama administration, during which America was routinely dishonored and criticized by the now former president.

Reeducating the miseducated generations is a daunting challenge, but it can’t be ignored.