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The big difference between the anti-American, left-wing dominant group at the schools and the old guard at the schools is this: the old guard permitted, even welcomed dissent. The new left (now the old left) simply hates dissent and will not allow it.

Thus you get a faculty that Stalin would be proud of, and a student body that follows their lead.

Out in the wide world, the students often shed the influence of their faculties and go on to become all kinds of things, even Republicans. Especially when students enter the labor force, their lives change remarkably. Once someone has to get up in the morning, clean up, get dressed, spend the day at work, and live off the pittance he makes, the whole world becomes different. You look at loafers and bums totally differently. You look at taxes differently. You look at a country that gives you opportunity differently. In the workplace, a very rapid maturation takes place for most. Back at the university, where professors have tenure and only have to teach a few hours a week, the situation worsens. The faculty becomes like a black hole in space, a death star that gets ever darker and denser. The faculty is a leisure/intellectual class that never has to grow up and can cling to its fear and its childish loathing of the grownups out in the big wide world forever. But like all black holes, it threatens to crash in upon itself constantly.

Helping it to crash in on itself, I am happy to say, are my pals at the Young America's Foundation, who send conservative speakers to resurgent, fearless College Republicans, Right to Life, and other groups on campus who have finally had enough and are fighting back. But they have a helluva row to hoe. It ain't gonna be easy and the dominant powers on campus will need fighting against for a long, long time.

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