College freshmen haven’t been this liberal since the Vietnam War

[Banjo]

Ronald Reagan was president the last time those on the right outnumbered those on the left
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/co...this-liberal-since-the-vietnam-war-2016-02-11

 

[fhl]

College history.

 

[Scataphagos]

Not really. Wasn't "that way" until the Leftistist, Progressive cancer got its hooks into America.

 

[Ricter]

Not really. Wasn't "that way" until the Leftistist, Progressive cancer got its hooks into America.

You are referring to the Indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny of 1636, in Maine?

 

[piezoe]

The title of this thread seems to suggest that liberalism (however one interprets that) among college students had something to do with the Vietnam War. I know that's not a reasonable connection, so perhaps you meant since the 1960s. I am still wondering, as someone who was a college student in the 1960s, what was it that made 1960s college students more "liberal", if indeed they were. Haven't college students throughout the 20th and now 21st Centuries always been a bit more "liberal" than the general population? Or have they? Yes I read the article. It is ridiculous. It shows college students today, freshmen, I guess, right in the middle of their liberal think range. This is most likely a reflection of the well known correlation between higher education and more Liberal, in the Hobbesian sense, political philosophy. I would also submit that the data is heavily skewed by the liberal arts majors who have on average more exposure to the classics.

Today, we are decidedly less likely to find introspective, liberal thought among real estate developers, venture capitalists, and evangelists -- or even radio, baseball announcers -- than we are among Historians or Greek and Latin scholars.
But is anyone surprised by that?

 

[gwb-trading]

You are referring to the Indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny of 1636, in Maine?

You are citing a "rebellion" where the leader was whipped and the others told to get back to work or they would be hung (according to the verbal history I heard many times in Maine). There appears to be no written history of the event scribed at that time.

 

[Ricter]

You are citing a "rebellion" where the leader was whipped and the others told to get back to work or they would be hung (according to the verbal history I heard many times in Maine). There appears to be no written history of the event scribed at that time.

Hey, I just picked an event from a very long list of what might be called progressive events from our history. Just trying to agree with Scat, that the country has been ruined, by leftists, ever since they got their "hooks into us".
; )

 

[Ricter]

Today, we are decidedly less likely to find introspective, liberal thought among real estate developers, venture capitalists, and evangelists -- or even radio, baseball announcers -- than we are among Historians or Greek and Latin scholars.
But is anyone surprised by that?

So true.

 

[Ricter]

You are citing a "rebellion" where the leader was whipped and the others told to get back to work or they would be hung (according to the verbal history I heard many times in Maine). There appears to be no written history of the event scribed at that time.

But when and where did the disease of leftism/progressivism, WHICH HAS DESTROYED AMERICA , really come from? Was it brought over by our English parents, with their long history of serf and worker rebellion against the privilege of those "eating turtle soup with gold spoons" (thank you, Charles Dickens)? Or was that vile seed already in our soils, with the wives of Native Americans who withheld sex to, or pissed in the pemmican of, their abusive or neglectful husbands? Or with the young braves who challenged the power and privilege of senile chiefs?

Ahh, history.

 

[gwb-trading]

But when and where did the disease of leftism/progressivism, WHICH HAS DESTROYED AMERICA , really come from? Was it brought over by our English parents, with their long history of serf and worker rebellion against the privilege of those "eating turtle soup with gold spoons" (thank you, Charles Dickens)? Or was that vile seed already in our soils, with the wives of Native Americans who withheld sex to, or pissed in the pemmican of, their abusive or neglectful husbands? Or with the young braves who challenged the power and privilege of senile chiefs?

Ahh, history.

We don't care where the disease of leftism came from. It is time that we stamped out this infection for once and all.