Why Professors are Predominantly ‘leftist.’

[JBeukema]

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Monopolies depend upon outside aggression (most often from politicians and bureaucrats) in an otherwise free market.

Actually, it took outside intervention from the State to break the monopolies and trusts.

hence anti-trust....

How do people in america not know this stuff?

 

[Oddball]

Why are professors progressive?
For the same reason Journalists are primarily a bit left of center, both professors and journalists have IQ's generally 120 and above.

Right...The believe that they're smarter and everyone else, to the point that they can direct everyone else's lives, therefore the must be.

IOW, they're above-board snobs.

 

[Samson]

Hated because you are Jealous Fuckers who wish you had a job that allowed you to meet lots of 20-something wimmins, and gave you time to write government grants:

You see, the downside to all of these government grants funding programs is that with so many of them, it can be very time-consuming to find the ones that you qualify for and get through all of the ones that you don’t. That is precisely why Federal Grant Source exists – to help you quickly and easily find grants that apply to you, and then take you through all of the necessary steps in order to get that money in your hands.

 

[Oddball]

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Monopolies depend upon outside aggression (most often from politicians and bureaucrats) in an otherwise free market.

Actually, it took outside intervention from the State to break the monopolies and trusts.

hence anti-trust....

How do people in america not know this stuff?

Right...They create the monopolies, via things like mineral rights awards and right-of-way regulation, then ride in on the white charger to "save" us all.

Twain was right....What you "know" that just ain't so.

 

[Dr Gregg]

Why are professors progressive?
For the same reason Journalists are primarily a bit left of center, both professors and journalists have IQ's generally 120 and above.

Yup, journalist report the facts, hence they have a "liberal bias". Universities teach the facts, hence they have a "liberal bias"

 

[Dr.Traveler]

Monopolies depend upon outside aggression (most often from politicians and bureaucrats) in an otherwise free market.

I think we're in a Chicken and Egg argument here. Monopolies often form because the company that eventually forms the monopoly had the best product at the best price. They then have financial resources they can turn into political power which they use to protect their advantage. Monopolies do depend on outside factors that often they bring into the game.

There are exceptions (government mandated monopolies), but often a monopoly forms under free market competition, and perpetuates their advantage by sabotaging the Free Market the first chance they get.

That's why Free Markets are the unicorns of Finance. To have one, you have to have a mechanism to protect competition. Once you have that, it isn't a Free Market anymore. At best its a hybrid.

 

[Big Fitz]

Here we are again with the right SPEWING HATE on any education and the people who seek education.

The facts have a liberal bias.

That is why educated people lean left.

When a group of people tell you education is bad for you and EXAULT the people with the most money as the best people in a society and that everyone who doesnt agree with the wealthy is just envious and has nothing good to say then you can surely bet those people are the Kingmakers lackeys.


The right wants you to HATE and devalue education, science, news reporters, people who are anti war and anyone or anything that would demminish the power of the WEALTHIEST members of our society.

They want you uneducated, uninformed, believing any myth they say and ready to die for it.


Just how stupid can people be?

Wrong again, dingbat.

People in general like intellectuals and smart people...It's academic snobs that they loathe and mistrust.

There's a HUGE difference.

Lemme distill that for you.

People hate elitists.

But to elucidate even more...

People hate elitists, particularly those who abuse their power over others. Specifically, newly minted graduates and children who find themselves captive audiences to megalomaniacs in tweed who have no justification for their ego as well. For they have done nothing worthy of meriting what the REAL world would call 'achievement'.

 

[Defiant1]

It's really simple:

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.

 

[Big Fitz]

Looks to me that Dude is pointing out that because of screwed up leftist theories of what a market is, combined with the envy of educators towards those who DO achieve and make money, prices are artificially high with little reason for it.

Personally, I think it'd be fun to make all tax supported university unable to charge tuition. Free to all LEGAL citizens, or they' have to go private and get no tax money.

 

[Dr.Traveler]

Hated because you are Jealous Fuckers who wish you had a job that allowed you to meet lots of 20-something wimmins, and gave you time to write government grants:

I have to say, that any romantic interest you might have in a 20 something goes away after about 20 minutes of conversation. And if you're just looking to get laid by a 20 something, becoming a professor is working too hard. Just get a bartender's job at the local college bar. Its a lot easier, a lot less hours, and you'll meet more girls than you will in a classroom.

 

[Big Fitz]

It's really simple:

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.

and those who can't teach, report. Those who can't report, blog.

 

[Dr Gregg]

Here we are again with the right SPEWING HATE on any education and the people who seek education.

The facts have a liberal bias.

That is why educated people lean left.

When a group of people tell you education is bad for you and EXAULT the people with the most money as the best people in a society and that everyone who doesnt agree with the wealthy is just envious and has nothing good to say then you can surely bet those people are the Kingmakers lackeys.


The right wants you to HATE and devalue education, science, news reporters, people who are anti war and anyone or anything that would demminish the power of the WEALTHIEST members of our society.

They want you uneducated, uninformed, believing any myth they say and ready to die for it.


Just how stupid can people be?

Wrong again, dingbat.

People in general like intellectuals and smart people...It's academic snobs that they loathe and mistrust.

There's a HUGE difference.

Lemme distill that for you.

People hate elitists.

But to elucidate even more...

People hate elitists, particularly those who abuse their power over others. Specifically, newly minted graduates and children who find themselves captive audiences to megalomaniacs in tweed who have no justification for their ego as well. For they have done nothing worthy of meriting what the REAL world would call 'achievement'.

You know what's even worse? Ignorant elitists Those that are completely misinformed, uneducated and ignorant that think they are smarter than others when in fact they are vastly inferior.

Educated or not, most people don't like arrogant assholes that think they are better than everybody else, of any kind.

And the majority of college professors and PhDs in general are really modest and nice people.

 

[Big Fitz]

more likely because reality has a liberal bias, they teach facts, not talking points and ideology.

Okay, we've found a dumber post. Good effort Dr. Gregg.

 

[Big Fitz]

Wrong again, dingbat.

People in general like intellectuals and smart people...It's academic snobs that they loathe and mistrust.

There's a HUGE difference.

Lemme distill that for you.

People hate elitists.

But to elucidate even more...

People hate elitists, particularly those who abuse their power over others. Specifically, newly minted graduates and children who find themselves captive audiences to megalomaniacs in tweed who have no justification for their ego as well. For they have done nothing worthy of meriting what the REAL world would call 'achievement'.

You know what's even worse? Ignorant elitists Those that are completely misinformed, uneducated and ignorant that think they are smarter than others when in fact they are vastly inferior.

Educated or not, most people don't like arrogant assholes that think they are better than everybody else, of any kind.

And the majority of college professors and PhDs in general are really modest and nice people.

You really shouldn't post while looking in the mirror "Dr.".

 

[Dr Gregg]

more likely because reality has a liberal bias, they teach facts, not talking points and ideology.

Okay, we've found a dumber post. Good effort Dr. Gregg.

Brilliant retort I suppose this is what you call a smart post?

Journalists report facts, universities report facts. Conservatives cry its liberal bias, what's not factual about that?

 

[Truthmatters]

I think maybe they never met many proffs

 

[xotoxi]

6. Thirdly,

wtf?

I was wondering the same thing.

Then I remembered that this is one of Political Chic's signature copy and paste threads, and she just screwed up with the numbering.

 

[Dr Gregg]

Lemme distill that for you.

People hate elitists.

But to elucidate even more...

People hate elitists, particularly those who abuse their power over others. Specifically, newly minted graduates and children who find themselves captive audiences to megalomaniacs in tweed who have no justification for their ego as well. For they have done nothing worthy of meriting what the REAL world would call 'achievement'.

You know what's even worse? Ignorant elitists Those that are completely misinformed, uneducated and ignorant that think they are smarter than others when in fact they are vastly inferior.

Educated or not, most people don't like arrogant assholes that think they are better than everybody else, of any kind.

And the majority of college professors and PhDs in general are really modest and nice people.

You really shouldn't post while looking in the mirror "Dr.".

and you wonder why people complain about elitists when they think responses like this are intelligent responses THey know they are lacking in intelligence and are jealous

 

[Samson]

I think maybe they never met many proffs

I think maybe that you are a turnip.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Why Professors are Predominantly ‘leftist’ ?

Because they have brains.

Perhaps you missed this sentence:
"This bias contrasts sharply, of course, with the dispassionate search for truth that scholars and teachers claim to revere."