Republican lawmakers have reintroduced a piece of legislation that would create a civic education program that directly addresses the history of communism.
Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) unveiled the bill on March 12, saying that the proposed measures were designed to inform high school students about the “dangers of communism” and similar ideology.
“Communism is a cancer, and it always produces the same results: oppression, suffering and death,” Kennedy said in a statement accompanying the bill.
Titled the Crucial Communism Teaching Act, the legislation states its purpose is to ensure younger generations are aware of the fact that communism has resulted in the deaths of more than 100 million people worldwide, and more than 1.5 billion people current live under communist regimes….