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The Patriot Post Digest 11-15-2017
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We are now at a point of critical mass. This leftist takeover of the American education system, which also includes public grade schools, has been going on for years. It has become painfully evident since the election of Donald Trump. Leftists thought they were assured victory when Hillary Clinton was within reach of following Barack Obama into the White House. But the country came to its collective senses, and the Left did what it does best: It got really angry.
The damage from the leftist takeover of American higher education is immense and growing. In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, University of California, Santa Cruz, professor John Ellis points out27, “The imbalance is not only a question of numbers. Well-balanced opposing views act as a corrective for each other: The weaker arguments of one side are pounced on and picked off by the other. Both remain consequently healthier and more intellectually viable. But intellectual dominance promotes stupidity. As one side becomes numerically stronger, its discipline weakens. The greater the imbalance between the two sides, the more incoherent and irrational the majority will become.”
This is why we don’t see intellectually stimulating debate when Ben Shapiro or Milo Yiannopoulos appear on a college campus. Leftists would rather shout down and attack people. They are constantly surrounded by like-minded views, so they don’t have the intellectual capacity to frame their thoughts in a coherent way when challenged. In short, their brains don’t get exercise.
Of course, any free-thinking person knows that the Left’s viewpoints are generally indefensible anyway. And leftists know that, too. That’s why they have purged America’s college campuses of intellectual opposition. And this has had a ripple effect that has impacted our whole society.
The anti-male, every-man’s-a-rapist meme and the hostile social environment pushed by radical feminists on campus plays a major role in the 30% dropout rate28 among freshman males. A Brookings Institution29 study revealed that one in five college students believe that violence is an acceptable response to unacceptable speech. No wonder college enrollment is down30. Who would want to put their family in massive debt sending their kid to school in such an environment?
If the American higher education system remains in the grip of rabid leftists posing as academics, then the whole country will suffer. The social squishes who emerge from these institutions are ill-prepared to handle real life, shrinking back from every “micro-aggression” they experience, unable to take criticism and learn from it, and unable to be the leaders that this country’s next generation will need.
Ellis points out that there is a solution — making these institutions of higher learning accountable. “What if voters were to insist … answers to some elementary questions? For example: How can a department of political science that excludes half the spectrum of viable political ideas be competent to offer degrees in the field? How can a history curriculum be taught competently when only one extremist attitude to social and political questions is present in a department? How can these extraordinary deficiencies deserve either accreditation, or support by state and federal funds?”
Americans need to take back their schools and stop letting the Left run them as re-education camps. Higher learning is supposed to prepare you for a better life where you have the freedom to make your own choices and plan your own way to success as you define it. It’s not supposed to serve the ends of a bankrupt ideology whose only way to win an argument is to beat down the opposition.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Issues of Life and Religious Liberty33 — The Supreme Court takes up a California law, while Notre Dame flip-flops on Catholic doctrine.
The Rich Are on the Move34 — Democrat-controlled states are chasing the wealthy out by continuously raising income tax rates.
The Racist Times35 — The New York Times features an op-ed titled, “Can My Children Be Friends With White People?”
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Rebecca Hagelin: Sex Scandal (Part One)36
Tony Perkins: Bodies of Evidence Point to Planned Parenthood37
Michelle Malkin: Silence on Sleaze-Bob Menendez38
Byron York: At Air Force Academy, a Perfect Hoax for Age of Trump39
Walter Williams: Stalking Horses40
For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion41.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Rebecca Hagelin: “America is in the midst of a huge, sordid sex scandal. As horrific as it is to have so much alleged sexual harassment and abuse coming to light from Hollywood to the halls of Congress and seemingly everywhere in-between, worse still is the reality that we should not be surprised. For several decades American culture has been fed a steady diet of highly sexualized leftist movies, television shows and advertisements. Pornography abounds on the Internet, and sleazy magazines that used to be hidden from view and read in secret are now boldly on display at the grocery store checkout counter. And I’m not referring to just ‘men’s’ journals either. Among the most sexualized magazines today are those written for America’s teen daughters. Graphic ‘sex education,’ for crying out loud, is even forced on innocent little kindergarteners. Homosexuality and transgender ideology are so pervasive and ‘acceptable’ that such individuals touting their sexual preferences and perversions are given awards, accolades and their own TV shows. Yet we are collectively shocked that sexual harassment is so pervasive? Adults love to dump on teens and talk about ‘these kids today.’ As it turns out, an entire generation of liberal adults — now older — first ushered in the cultural sewage in which America’s children continue to drown. Most of the men accused of sexual exploitation and harassment are of the same generation that has been producing the garbage media for decades. And just like any untreated infection, the rot and rotten behavior have spread to virtually every demographic, political persuasion and faith background.”
SHORT CUTS
For the record: “Raging against the establishment for the sake of raging is an agenda for losers, and it will cost conservatives the votes in Congress they need to achieve conservative goals.” —The Wall Street Journal
Upright: “Envy doesn’t create wealth. Freedom and character does. How about we focus less on punishing those who succeed and more on helping those who are not realizing their potential?” —Star Parker
Non Compos Mentis: “Pupils need to be able to play with the many cloaks of identity… Children should be at liberty to explore the possibilities of who they might be without judgement or derision.” —"guidance" from The Church of England
The BIG Lie: “While gun safety may not seem like a feminist issue at first blush, it doesn’t take too much digging to see that women are uniquely vulnerable to and disproportionately the victims of gun violence.” —Wendy Davis (“In 2015, the gun homicide rate for men was 19.3 for every 100,000 Americans, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. By contrast, the rate for women was six times lower, at 3.2 per 100,000 people.” —Washington Free Beacon’s Alex Griswold)
Fear-mongering: “We are concerned that the president of the United States is so unstable, is so volatile, [and] has a decision-making process that is so quixotic that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step with U.S. national security interests.” —Sen. Chris Murphy
A blind squirrel finds a nut: “The accusers of Bill Clinton back in the ‘90s were never given the credence, and treated with the same respect that these women [accusing Roy Moore] are being treated. And I think that there is something to be said about how society has evolved since then, but, in addition, it’s hard not to look back at that period and think: 'You know what? The media treated those women poorly.’” —CNN’s Jake Tapper
And last… “Do you think Bill Clinton inspired a whole generation of lecherous ‘male feminists’? It was quite a message: Have the right politics, and you can get away doing anything to women.” —Frank Fleming
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