Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud: “Children will be taught to love America… to be patriots… or schools lose federal $$.” That’s not civics—that’s state-mandated worship straight from the Kim-Jong-Un/Stalin playbook. Authoritarian regimes tie funding to ideological obedience. North Korea calls it Juche; the USSR called it “raising the New Soviet Man.” Miller calls it “patriotism.” Same tactic, different flag. Real freedom lets kids question power— not salute it on command. Closing the Dept. of Ed. + dangling money only for “approved” lessons turns classrooms into propaganda halls. If we let politicians decide WHAT loving America means, tomorrow’s generation will grow up chanting slogans instead of challenging injustice. Patriotism that must be forced isn’t patriotism; it’s fear wearing red-white-and-blue. Keep ideology tests OUT of our schools. Teach history—the good, the bad, the messy—and let kids build their own love of country through truth, not threats. “Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding. So as we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."