The Ground Troops of the Revolution Are Being Trained Before Our Eyes

I’m pretty sure that most parents have no idea that their children are being trained to become cannon fodder for the insurgency that has been gaining steam for quite a while. 

Insurgencies are fundamentally different in their tactics from revolutions, even though their goals are largely the same. Revolutions seek to replace the current order through a spasm of violence, and while they can and often do build upon work done by an insurgency, they need not. They can be triggered by events or by a perceived weakness of the regime, whether caused by internal or external factors, while insurgencies aim to erode the regime’s strength through some form of asymmetrical warfare. 

The whole point of the “long march through the institutions” was to slowly build an insurgency by weakening the American regime through internal subversion and by training several generations through ideological indoctrination and destroying social trust. First, take over academia, then government, and K-12, coopt the media and turn it into Pravda, and only then resort to low-level violence and unleashing criminals. 

🤯 This is NOT an AI video! California’s child-obsessed Senator @Scott_Wiener – running for Pelosi’s congressional seat – is now at an elementary school encouraging little KIDS to have an anti-ICE WALKOUT protest!

Using kids as campaign props!? Sick. pic.twitter.com/68igdw9bZr

— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) February 12, 2026

Because most adults fail to see the pattern and still trust our institutions despite their hollowing out, the left has made huge strides in achieving its goals, and perhaps the most important success story has been its takeover of public schools. Conservatives rightly focus on the propagandistic efforts of Pravda to brainwash people, but that brainwashing is aimed at adults who will not be the ground troops of the revolution they hope to spark. 

Principal Peter Newman at Da Vinci Charter Academy (DVCA) in Davis, CA, confronted for overseeing an anti-ICE protest outside of school.

He refused to say if parents were notified or school funds were spent on signs for the protest.

Fire and arrest him.pic.twitter.com/R9Ab39GhjZ

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 15, 2026

Children are especially ripe for brainwashing and recruitment for obvious reasons, and one of the key tasks of schools is teaching students how to be citizens in a Republic. They used to teach civics. Now they teach activism and revolution. 

Meet Kaili Schmidt. A staff member at Gene Dillon Elementary school in Minnesota. She reposted this video celebrating a student who PUNCHED a pro-ICE student in the face.

Would you feel comfortable with this person teaching your children?

The principal can be reached here:… pic.twitter.com/2lz0Nn4BbM

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 15, 2026

That indoctrination has worked very well, I have to say, although I am not certain that a lot of the ideological training won’t backfire, as teens tend to be rebellious. Do they rebel against the regime or the authority figures in front of them? Probably both, with a growing divide between kids who break one way or another. 

They don’t oppose violence.

They just want to use it against you instead. https://t.co/Vd52KguAPn

— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 15, 2026

There are many reasons why the Democrats oppose school choice with the ferocity of a tigress defending its kits, but one of them is that public education gives them unfettered access to the unformed minds of children whom they can manipulate with hardly a bit of opposition. The goal is not just to separate kids from the larger society, but also from their parents. This is why schools have been becoming health and psychological centers, and one-stop community centers for the youth. 

NEW: The Issaquah School Board is finally acknowledging the brutal beatdown that happened earlier this week during anti-ICE classroom walkout. Superintendent Heather Tow-Yick said the following:

-Young woman seen ripping out the hair of an innocent Eastside mom has not been… https://t.co/UIl7JeLZWc pic.twitter.com/F66mkEy9CR

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) February 13, 2026

It’s no coincidence that the shocking rise in mental health problems has corresponded with SEL and the expansion of the mandate for public schools. Nor is it a coincidence that schools have encouraged kids to embrace their mental illnesses as part of their identity. “Queer” is all about rejecting social norms, and Queer is the ideological center of gravity of public schools and Critical Theory. 

INBOX: Steve Smith, the principal of Jefferson Middle School (@OKCPS), confirms in an email that there will be a planned anti-ICE student walkout occurring at his school on Friday, and that school staff will be offering GUIDANCE and DIRECTING the student protestors.

Your tax… pic.twitter.com/m0BaUfxEOn

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 11, 2026

NBOX: Steve Smith, the principal of Jefferson Middle School (@OKCPS), confirms in an email that there will be a planned anti-ICE student walkout occurring at his school on Friday, and that school staff will be offering GUIDANCE and DIRECTING the student protestors.

Your tax dollars are being spent on encouraging children to be far-left political activists who oppose law enforcement.

We’ve all seen the videos from teachers who proudly display their classrooms filled with the symbolism of the insurgency, and while many center-left people buy that it is all about kindness, the reality is that it is about training kids to be the ground troops of the Cultural Revolution. 

Student says professor conducted ‘ICE drill’ in class, told students to use their bodies as shields

‘I immediately knew that it was very wrong… she was saying that because I am a white student, that I essentially need to act as a human shield and interfere with federal… pic.twitter.com/TzPNgyoQBl

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) February 7, 2026

Student says professor conducted ‘ICE drill’ in class, told students to use their bodies as shields

‘I immediately knew that it was very wrong… she was saying that because I am a white student, that I essentially need to act as a human shield and interfere with federal agents.’

“Put your body on the line” is one of the refrains of the insurgents, and unsurprisingly, a large proportion of those bodies will be young people. 

BREAKING – Video of a Washington State high school student screaming “I want my mommy” as she’s being arrested after assaulting officers during an anti-ICE school walkout is going viral.

Get your children out of public schools now. pic.twitter.com/spVK3xvAF6

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 15, 2026

Children are ideal ground troops, partly because they are easy to brainwash and have little understanding of long-term consequences, and also because we recoil when children get hurt. Activists hurl children at authorities, and when something awful happens, the result is a propaganda jackpot. 

🚨 Marcia Howard: President of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators and English teacher at Roosevelt High School.

In a grotesque and overtly racist spectacle, she attempts to pit ICE agents against each other based on skin color.

Then she threatens them with hangings. @FBI pic.twitter.com/oGhhUPAp2U

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) February 7, 2026

Take a baby to a riot, and make hay when the child gets harmed by tear gas. It is the Hamas strategy of using civilians for propaganda purposes. 

Teen thugs waving Mexican flags literally tried stone a man to death in Aurora, Illinois. He was targeted because he had a Trump banner. https://t.co/uWhjibh5Ib

— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) February 14, 2026

One of the shields the insurgents have is that many people look back fondly on their school days, and they can’t imagine public schools serving as recruiting centers for an insurgency. “They are run by the government!” 

Political violence by kids—an identical replay of the Chinese Cultural Revolution！ https://t.co/rp6Owk5rJM pic.twitter.com/48kWA60sU0

— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) February 7, 2026

The Long March Through the Institutions…

As a retired Green Beret, I’ve seen the worst groups use kids as shields in their fights. Now it’s happening in America with anti-ICE protests. History’s warnings are clear and terrifying. Read why we must stop this exploitation. (5 min read)
De Oppresso Liber#ProtectOurKids… https://t.co/cSbcEuGHCR

— Eric Schwalm (@Schwalm5132) February 7, 2026

As with so much of the left’s agenda, none of this is exactly secret. In fact, the insurgents tend to brag about their agenda. “Decolonization” or “replacement migration” are not secret plots. 

BREAKING: The Florida teachers union says children protesting immigration enforcement “is REQUIRED.”

They’re using your kids to advance their political agenda.

These socialist unions must be destroyed. pic.twitter.com/0ASlxBVEa2

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) February 15, 2026

The media calls the “Great Replacement Theory” a far-right conspiracy theory. Joe Biden bragged that it was good. 

Biden admitted Democrats planned “an unrelenting stream of immigration, non-stop” to put “folk like me who are of Caucasian of European descent” in an “absolute minority.”

“That’s not a bad thing,” Biden said. “That’s a source of our strength.”

Once elected, he threw open the… pic.twitter.com/Eys5u2cswV

— Tara Servatius (@TaraServatius) February 15, 2026

People don’t see it for what it is, not because it is hidden, but because most people cannot conceive that their elite would do anything this evil. 

The perfect encapsulation of what this insurgency is creating is captured in this image:

Everything the Democrats touch turns to garbage. pic.twitter.com/V98dzVuPDx

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) February 16, 2026

That gas station was destroyed in the George Floyd riots and sits as a monument to what the insurgency is trying to create. Is it any surprise that the activists who did this, and created the “Where There’s People There Is Power” graffiti, are now embracing the next step in the insurgency?

Of course not. It’s never the cause they claim; it’s about the coming revolution they hope to bring about. 

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