Imagine that you are a new freshman and you discover that your college has 3 speakers and debate clubs. Each club invites speakers and then after each speaker is done, the members of the club debate the ideas presented.
Club #1, the Liberal Club, has decided to ONLY PERMIT Liberal speakers.
Club #2, the Conservative Club, has decided that since the Liberal Club only permits Liberal speakers, it will only permit Conservative speakers.
Club #3, the Best Ideas Club, allows speakers from all kinds of ideologies--Liberal, Conservative, or otherwise--and, after each speech, club members ferociously debate the merits and disadvantages of the ideas presented.
The motto of Club #3 is "May the Best Ideas Win."
Oddly enough, the ideas that win at Club #3 are Conservative ideas because after each ferocious debate, they emerge as most conducive to success, learning, achievement, and rational thinking.
Liberal ideas, on the other hand, never seem to survive debate because they are not based in reality, thrive only when no other ideas are allow to compete against them, and generally encourage weakness and failure.
Which Speakers and Debate Club would you want to join?
All due respect.....that’s a straw man Rooster
Obviously, we all should want Club # 3
BUT
Main line colleges don’t respect or welcome ‘Club # 3