Posted on 04/07/2009 5:48:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Democrat party and its marxist allies are the true reactionaries.
IMHO
The suburban, SUV, soccer mom, country club, soccer club, tennis club, little league, etc lifestyle they grew up in died on November 4, 2008 and the $4 trillion in deficit spending has sealed the tomb. They are destined to be economic serfs. But, Obama! 'He's sooooo beautiful." He's like us! We LOVE Obama!"
Gag...
Academia is dominated by the left from kindergarten thru graduate school.
So is entertainment.
So is the MSM.
Kinda like an axis of propoganda.
When are they going to stop sending their children to public schools, where the damage begins? When are they going to realize that "free and compulsory education" is a form of welfare, with the usual evil consequences?
My daughter keeps asking her pro-Obama classmates how his administration has helped them, up to this point. Deafening silence ...
She says everyone in the Automotive Technology and Corrections Management classes are right-wingers, though ;-).
The fact that tsips question their sexuality doesn't surprise most of us in the Big 12... ;^)
LOL!
One of my biggest gripes is students who are too afraid to stand up for their beliefs when some Ward Churchill-wannabe goes spouting indoctrination points from his version of Mao's Little Red book. "I'm afraid I'll get a low grade". C'mon, have the courage of your beliefs! I know plenty of people who'd hire you for getting a "D" in "Womyn's Studies 101" or "Comparative Studies- The Superiority of Cuba's Healthcare System 202", especially if they knew you busted the balls of the Marxist Indoctrinator every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at 10 AM. Parents need to raise their kids to be courageous enough to stand up to these Apparatchiks and damn the consequences.
To be fair, most Engineering and technical professors are either politically conservative or at least neutral. Also, most students simply go to some of these classes just to get a grade, and the biggest question coming from them is, "Uhhh, will that be on the test?"
60's Radicals have taken over everywhere I guess
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Most Americans have little or no knowledge about socialism, communism, and Marxism. These topics are generally forbidden and discouraged in our educational system. Questions abound in the U.S. about these ideologies and alternative economic systems..
For example, is the Peoples' Republic of China communist? Was the Soviet Union really communist? How can Communist China be the fastest growing capitalist economy in the world, until recenct months??
Did you know that at various times over half of Western Europeon voters have voted for socialist candidates and that at least six of these nations are ruled by socialists or social democrats currently? And these six nations have an average standard of living higher than that of the United States?
Did you know that a guiding principle of most socialists is democracy at all levels of society. So why not learn about actual socialism instead of depending on Fox News? This next Fall Term I will offer a course called Introduction to Marxism and Socialism and we will explore all of the above questions and much more.
The course is open to everyone whether you are taking it for credit or not. For forty years I have been a democratic socialist and one of my special academic interests is the development of what is know as "Neomarxism." I am clearly aware of the various strengths and weaknesses of Marxist analysis and the prospects of socialism.
But I truly believe it is time for us to have an intelligent discussion/discourse on the insights available for a more democratic and humane society for the future. Surely it is time to at least rethink the dominant ideologies of our society (laissez faire, neoliberalism, trickle down, etc.). There must be an alternative to predatory corporate capitalism and the awful party dictatorships justified by Stalinism and Maoism.
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A wasted life.
There truly is no hope for the nation, is there?
That's easy;
We allowed our party and ideologies to become separated and dysfunctional right before a key election and lost everything.
I have nothing against this professor spouting Marxist talking points. What I do have a problem with is if you nephew just sits there quietly and is too s-s-scared to refute his talking points.
In my college, my friend who I could best describe had Obama mania, woke up and smelled the coffee :D. When he found out about the Obama Youth Brigades, oh man he admitted he would have voted for Mcain. I just pointed him towards this site, and said, you seemed to know everything about him (and he did know everything he said) but are you ready to see the truth? I pointed him here and I’ll probably point him to Drudge too. There’s hope, the college students are waking up, some won’t completely, but there getting there :D.
He does not.
UMass remains strong in the sciences and engineering. In the humanities and social sciences, it's a foot-long crap grinder.
Is he willing to take a D or F for his beliefs?
He willing to be kicked out of the class for his beliefs.
Also, beware of Non-Stop Party Classrooms.
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