They had to go to school to get there. They spent 6 to 12 year kissing the ashes of various faculty members. They have told the same lie so many times to appease a professor that they end up believing it themselves.

Most of the conservatives of my generation did our post graduate work in Vietnam. That left the liberal elements to go to Canada, England or elsewhere and get fancy diplomas in underwater basket weaving. Then it was “All is forgiven” and a blanket amnesty was issued to the cowards. They came home with their fancy diplomas and that’s were it started.

I do encourage you to have some patience. Liberals are killing off 1.5 million perspective voters a year in the form of abortions. The only way liberals can add to the voter rolls it to add to the welfare rolls. In another 10 or 15 years I anticipate a significant change. The conservatives took the House of Representative in the very year the first aborted babies would have voted. Is that a coincidence?

The last election was not a Liberal overpowering of Conservatives. It was a lot of Conservatives who were pissed off and fired their representatives.

Interesting responses so far.

Well, I’m a professor, so let me make a comment or two…just to give you something to think about.

First, we’re not ALL a bunch of half-baked bleeding-heart lefties. I’m certainly not. However, your observation that there are lots of liberals in academia is a fair one. Consider age: many of my colleagues were hippies (or at least horribly disillusioned) during the 60s, and have never grown beyond the impressions of their youth.

Second, MANY of these people went into Sociology and Education during college and became the people who have been writing textbooks for the last 30 years. Have you actually READ a modern (secondary, or high school)history textbook?? Many are little more than leftist indoctrination guides. Not all, but many. This has greatly influenced youth over the years, helping to sway young people into left-leaning personal philosophies. Many, like your son will outgrow this nonsense when they must deal with the real world, many will not.

Those that do not, may well end up working in academia themselves, where (sometimes) political leanings can influence hiring practices. This should not happen, of course, but it most certainly does.

If this concerns you, get copies of the textbooks your local schools are using and read them. Verify for yourself, that they are either acceptable, or not. If everyone would do this, we could begin to swing the pendulum back the other direction.

I think professors spend so much time thinking about social problems and their own solutions to them, they become disconnect to the world around them, a world where most people create their own problems, not the government or structured society.

As a college student, I was always taught that the military was a horrible organization that enslaved the minority youth and sent them to war. After spending a few years as a teacher, I realized that many of my students may only have a bright future by joining the military, and leaving behind the crazy homes they came from. After a few years of watching who does this, and what they become because of it, I think the military is one of our finest institutuions.

College is about expanding frames of reference. Unfortunately people like your son take things to extremes because they had never thought of those things before. Sometimes professors say things they want students to challenge or disagree with, unfortunately “Good” students were taught to believe and ingrain everything a teacher said. That made them gullible. College is about making people skeptical. Highest level thinking requires evaluation, not just rote acceptance and memorization. You have to explore ideas before you reject them. As a working adult you KNOW you have seen some cockamamie ideas floated and unless someone analyzes them and evaluates them for their flaws and inconsistencies , the company is at stake.

I think a lot of teachers have hidden fears about cutting the mustard in corporate America, thus, they choose to stay in academia because it’s “familiar territory.” If they are confronted about these fears, some might simply claim it’s “disdain” and not fear (i.e., a cover-up) … The thing is, academia can be just as prone to hierarchy issues and other icky issues found in corporate America, so some parallels with corporate America do exist. However, I think there are many more insularities in academia, and some view that as a safety net. I suspect they’ll thumbsdown me for my answer. LOL

i think because most high ed institutions are trying to find new solutions to old problems. being conservative often means you are not willing to be creative or consider other avenues of thought. and that just doesn’t cut it in higher ed that is so driven by research. research means you need to find or discover new things. and you can’t do that by saying we should stick with what works or let the market figure it out.

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