How a monolithic leftist academia poisons America
The coming dark age: To understand how dominant and monolithic the left’s control over America’s modern academic community, one need only to take a scan at this series of research articles being assembled regularly by the website Campus Reform:
- 100 percent of Georgia University administrators, 67.9 percent of faculty donate to Dems
- 94 percent of Fla. public college admins, 93.55 percent of faculty donate to Dems
- 98.4 percent of Mizzou admin, 97.6 percent of faculty donate to Dems
- 100 percent of Univ. of Oregon admin, 99.95 percent of faculty donate to Dems
- 96.1 percent of University of Texas administrators, 93.5 percent of faculty donated to Dems
- 100 percent of SMU (Texas) administrators, 98.8 percent of faculty donate to Dems
Except for SMU, every single one of these colleges is a public institution, funded in great part by tax dollars. Yet, instead of being a vehicle for educating the young about the principles of western civilization which has made them and our wealthy society possible, they have become propaganda machines for the Democratic Party and the leftist socialist/communist utopia dreams that have always led to bankruptcy, poverty, starvation, and societal collapse.
So, have any of the legislatures from the states where these colleges are located done anything about this? Obviously, leftist states like Oregon are likely to applaud the fact that leftist teachers control their colleges, but what about Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Florida? The simple fact is that while we might sometimes have had conservative state legislatures, none of them have had the courage for the past five decades to demand better from these colleges.
Worse, Campus Reform only began this series about two weeks ago. I expect in the coming months they will find that almost every college nationwide is dominated in the same way.
The result is that we have bankrupt intellectual community in the United States. It sees only one right answer to all our problems (government and socialism), and it cannot think deeply about any subject since it has never been challenged to do so. And when it is challenged with alternative ideas or even facts, it acts like a four-year-old having a temper tantrum, running to Twitter to issue short, emotional, insulting attacks at those who dare disagree with its rigid beliefs. Smear tactics become standard operating procedures, and civilized discourse impossible.
And in that atmosphere thugs end up getting elected to office, wielding power for all the wrong reasons.
Unless some effort is made to change this, the political and intellectual culture of the United States is only going to decline further. Unfortunately, I do not see such a major effort happening. For one, there are not very many people in power who wish to do it. Second, it will take great courage and fortitude to stand up to the future temper tantrums that such an effort will produce. In my entire life, I have never seen anyone willing to do it.
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”
“The Second Coming”
W. B. Yeats
https://youtu.be/KP7-mXNYhDE
“The Gods of the Copybook Headings”
Rudyard Kipling (read by Tom O’Bedlam)
https://youtu.be/hTwHCsTq3IU
3:14
“As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
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The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.”
As the baby boomers and older people die off, they are being replaced by these liberally educated kids who display their ignorance on each youtube video by Stephen Crowder’s “Change My Mind” series.
In due course, all Americans will be educated by a near 100% liberal educational system.
I don’t see that as being a good thing.
With leftist gems like this in colleges, I cringe for our future:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-professor-caught-on-camera-stealing-gop-yard-signs
I love paying for these petty criminals.
I don’t believe in our entire history, have so many been feverously in search of a one-party centralized all powerful state.
Unlike their ancestors, they will purge first prior to total control – rather than after (a plus for us).
It will of course crash and burn.
Hondo, they’ve tried, but now they are more vocal and organize through the web. Thankfully, that remains their weakness as well as a strength.