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Yup, it's all about brainwashing, donchaknow?

This is a whole different world than when I was a freshman in 1976. The Vietnam war was over and most people on campus could really have cared less about politics and were more into studying and partying. Even with the the disastrous Jimmuh Cahtah administration, we were much less politically active. But still impressionable college freshman today are inundated with this disgusting hatespeak not only from 'tards like the campus democrats but from the media, their professors and whack-jobs like Hanoi Cindy and Code Pinko, to mention just a few.

“Do you hate this man?”

The problem is that hating Bush isn't simply the domain of Young Democrats, it is symptomatic of the broader Democrat Party. My brother is a classical leftist old fart (I'm younger - LOL!!!) who is just angry and full of hate. My aunt is equally angry and full of hate and (you guessed it) another bedwetting liberal. This is a condition that I find with most leftists . . . . . they are mostly angry and full of hate.

So, it's not really a surprise that a college "club" devoted to hating George Bush in the name of Young Democrats would attract new, uniformed members who believe that THEIR particular brand of ignorance is actually intellectualism!!

Most collegiate-age youngsters suffer from a slew of defects which makes them susceptible to this form of recruitment:

1. The tendency to regard as the best idea they ever heard, the LAST idea they ever heard.

2. Lack of experience in how life really works; they have not had much real responsibility (no mortgage, no kids to feed), they have yet to be disappointed by anything particularly important (like not getting a certain job, or perhaps finding out that you can't afford your dream house) and such.

3. Since many are away from home for the first time, the more shocking, the more seemingly-forbidden and taboo, the better. They gravitate towards that which titilates them.

4. In similar fashion, because they have no practical experience and because they are typically away from home for the first time (and thus guidance), they tend blindly stumble from one mistake to another. Knowledge comes hard,sometimes.

5. They are very much susceptible to being made to look dumb by their more-experienced professors and upperclassmen, who have managed to swap the appearance of learning for the actual thing. Since no one wants to be thought stupid, it's sometimes better to just join up and appear smart.

6. They have not learned the lesson that most forms of "progressive" politics are movements of the "well-intentioned but ill-informed" being led by the "well-informed but ill-intentioned".

7. While children require the opportunity to express their independance at the first opportunity, nowhere was it engraved in stone that they would always do so wisely.

8. Children away form home and placed in a new and often chaotic aand confusing atmosphere are the most susceptible to brainwashing.

9. What better place to practice covert psychiatry than on a college campus with all it's moldable minds? You will find an awful lot of psychiatrists involved in these campus movements. Your children are being manipulated by professionals.

10. There has been a tendency in America in the last 20-30 years to cease teaching things like history, civics, logic and oratory and debate. These courses have been replaced with things like "gender studies", "tolerance" and other multi-cultural subjects which advance grievances (real and perceived) in place of scholarship, and implant ideas within young minds. Ideas against which their young minds have been disarmed, not having the shields of history, civics, logic and debate to help separate the wheat from the chaff.