They Are Training Teachers Not to Tell You - PragerU CEO Marissa Streit Joins us to Discuss the Fight For America

Marissa Streit, CEO of PragerU, is back! Last time,  she told us serving your country can mean enlisting as an educator, a line we still bring up constantly. We cover a lot of ground in this conversation: why personal responsibility beats collective grievance, how socialism and communism sell real problems with fake solutions, a teacher's union resolution instructing teachers not to tell parents when a student is transitioning, intersectionality as what Marissa calls "victim bingo," and why PragerU ended up on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate map alongside Charlie Kirk.

Summarized timestamps

02:42 – The founding principle: personal responsibility vs. collective grievance, and "the bigger the government, the smaller the citizens 07:13 – Why socialism keeps winning young people over — real problems, fake solutions 15:57 – Case study: why a young family can't afford to raise kids in New York (rent control, tort law, regulation) 20:15 – The "education industrial complex": inside the books training teachers — Lessons in Liberation and Cultivating Genius 22:31 – The term "adultism" defined, and what it does to parental authority 24:52 – The AFT resolution: teachers told not to tell parents when a student is transitioning 27:11 – The California law letting a 12-year-old consent to gender-affirming care without parental notice 33:59 – Why parents look away: "it's not my child" and the cost of that thinking 38:34 – Intersectionality as "victim bingo" — how kids get recruited into causes that have nothing to do with their lives 45:18 – PragerU as a target: the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate map, Charlie Kirk, and repeated platform takedowns 49:36 – Is PragerU "right-wing propaganda"? Marissa's answer, and the story of the $1 million donor who set out to expose them Quotes:

"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." — Marissa Streit "Socialism, I oftentimes say, is communism with lipstick. It's the same thing — the government's going to fix things for you by stealing everything from you, and then everybody ends up equally poor." — Marissa Streit "God wanted the Israelites who made it to the promised land to be a people who recognized that freedom isn't free. It comes with a sacrifice, but it's a sacrifice worth making." — Marissa Streit "A socialist and a communist will take a truth we all recognize, but they'll give you a solution that is a lie." — Marissa Streit "They're defining adultism as adults having power and rights to decide what you