It has been my observation that higher education and a particularly liberal political bent go hand in hand. Of course, that may only be an expected observation considering the degree to which liberal professors dominate college campuses. Indeed, one can only expect a certain degree of political indoctrination from any person fresh out of university. We see this effect all the time on political forums such as this:
Some 22 year-old, who has recently graduated summa cum laude from PCU, is utterly convinced that he or she has the game all figured out: "If you want to appear intelligent you should reflexively, not only subscribe to liberal ideologies, but vigorously defend them as if they were your own."
Of course, later on, these very same avid liberal protagonists will get married, have children, and get truly acquainted with the world. Then a roughly predictable number of them will become rabid conservatives, utterly convinced that liberals are little more than a horde of dipshit moonbats with their heads up their asses (which they often are).
However, a much less predictable number of especially intelligent citizens will at some point recognize that the true game has always been concerned with managing mass political perspective so that a relatively equal number of knee-jerk liberals and hard-core conservatives exist on both sides of the political spectrum. This way, the ruling elite need only sway the swing voters in one direction or another in order to control the political climate of the nation, at least as far as control over the Oval Office is concerned.
This is such a fantasy of the right wing. It's hilarious. Repeated again and again by route. Young kids who have been indoctrinated into mysterious liberal ideology where they think they are "above" everyone else. But once they leave and enter the "real world" they realize their education had no real value and once they threw off that "indoctrination" they discovered "conservative values" and the true meaning of "morals" and the secret to "wealth".
Pathetic. If the right wing spent as much time studying "real things" instead of imagining this mess, we would all be a lot better off.
Is it really your contention that university is not dominated by professors of a decidely liberal persuasion?
What is pathetic is your powers of reading comprehension, if not your perception of socio-political mood swings over the last 50 years.
Liberals have certainly NOT been more concerned with "real things" than conservatives, at least not since 1960. Indeed, liberals have been proud to crow about their transcendentalism since JFK was elected president.
One need only comment on present liberal points of contention. What do liberals seem most concerned with right now?:
Gay marriage.
With everything that is wrong in the world right now, the liberals in America are seemingly fixated on "gay marriage" as if it were the most important issue of our time.
Tell me, is gay marriage one of the "real things" of which you are referring?
