Once upon a time the U.S. public educational system taught students that the president is a civilian in control of the military but is not himself a member of the military. But that was before nation-hating and Marxist-minded leftists took over total and permanent control of those public school systems.

And then they indoctrinated kids, teaching them the opposite of truth, "poisoning their brainwashed minds" Ozzy Osbourne

This is true. The problem with that approach is that the innately strong-minded start thinking for themselves and start doing independent research anyway. We call them . . . conservatives.