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No, the campus protests are not the President's fault and the blame can be applied to various groups.

Dept Of Ed - Civics is state driven too so while the Dept of Ed isn't setting a solid benchmark standard, the states that decide to use revisionist history in their curriculum are responsible just the same. That also encompasses the private schools that go their own way as well, but fewer of these are successful in terms of grade schools. Despite living in Texas, I still do not want to deal with the state standards where I have less control, so my kids are in private schools where I get to choose based on their stated curriculum.

Pushing moral-based orgs like churches out - The decline in Americans looking to churches as a moral and service leader vs the government is unfortunate. This has enabled things like fatherless homes for kids, declines in teaching personal responsibility and discipline, and many other things which leads to entitlement mentalities, crime, declines in being a part of things bigger than themselves, etc. That vacuum enables organizations which support the likes of Hamas to influence our kids.

Failure to punish consistently - Those who commit crimes are getting released on unprecedented levels so that politicians can wrongfully claim crime is going down under their watch (or that they are championing any given racial group they desire in their pocket). To that point people, especially kids, are more inclined to commit crimes knowing there are little to no repercussions.

All that said, the President STILL has a responsibility to act and to speak out against things that are clearly happening on a national level and to do so with conviction. President Biden failed at this. He is clearly trying to remain on the fence, in order to appease both sides, not accounting for the fact that there are those who will not compromise. Using this protest (more like a temper tantrum from the fids I described above) as an example, There are two elements at play here; The Israeli people and state which desires peace and the right to exist and the Palestinian people who what a place they can call their own and also live in peace. When the extreme elements of either side cross the line to say they want an end to the other, they lose credibility. It is unfortunate that the Palestinians have allowed Hamas to control their narratives, but that is a fact, and until they speak out against Hamas and their narratives (i.e. the destruction of Israel and all Jews), I cannot support them. Nor should the President of the United States. He cannot play both sides here because one is clearly co-opted with the desire to destroy the other. However, he can articulate his desire to work with those Palestinians that choose to divest from Hamas, speak out against them, and remove them from power. That must come with a sincere desire to live peacefully with the Israeli people and an end to genocidal rhetoric against all Jews.

But no, the president continues to throw the people who support Hamas a bone and emboldening them to step up the rhetoric and atrocious acts. Now it's filtered into our country more than ever and the President is only giving it half-hearted lip service. Instead, he should be inspiring Americans to denounce the rhetoric, to come together as Americans and challenge them when they take our flag down, vandalize our founding fathers, and call for the death of Americans. These young brats being led by older brats need to feel the consequences. Expulsion from school, jail time, community service, anger management, and even immediate deportation for those who are not citizens.

Iran just recently announced they will cover the tuition to any of the protestors that want an Iranian education. Send them! Set up a go fund me for their trip, and I will gladly contribute with the assurance that the remain there in Iran, renounce their US citizenship if applicable, and no longer return to the US. I would also have no problem with a president articulating the same thing.

President Biden is clearly and desperately trying to hold on to votes from people we really shouldn't be counting on for votes in the first place. The man who ran on wanting to bring Americans together has only created more and more divisiveness. This is in fact the worst President in this nation's history, and while college protests are not his fault, he has failed to step up as a leader to galvanize the vast numbers of Americans who are against this together. Case in point, when 9/11 happened, what did President Bush do? He passionately and unequivocally spoke out against Islamofascism and international terrorism. Roughly 90% of Americans supported his actions and words at the time and our political differences came second. This is not much different and it's only a matter of time before Americans are killed as a result of appeasing people who are willing to support and/or deny the actions of Hamas. I suggest President Biden, or his handlers, get a pair and step up!

Getting out to vote is a good beginning.

For Sgt Ann Cecil: He would have tried to send in active duty troops. Which is against the law. But he doesn’t think laws apply to him