This is changing, luckily. I'm working with legislators in Florida and Texas on abolishing the DEI bureaucracy in public universities. They are very receptive to this and want to take action.
This is great news. Looking forward to learning more about these initiatives as they are implemented. Remember, though, 'personnel is policy'; meaning, the funding of this noxious DEI bureaucracy must be diverted to more worthwhile educational programs (or returned to the taxpayers of Florida). Either way, those behind the woke takeover of these universities should be polishing their resumes and contacting their Linked-in networks.
for about 30 yrs Republican pols have treated Republican voters much like how Colonel Sanders treated chickens...
The priorities they fought for were: tax cuts, corporate profits, more tax cuts, open borders, the destruction of wages and unions; then when election season rolled around they added unlimited guns and the protection of fetuses.
These represent the successes of the modern Conservative movement. Things like education, esp the Humanities, coded as effete to them, or something adults in the real world only scoff at ("wait till those French poetry majors hit the real world!"), and thus the Humanities became the beach-head their opponents conquered on the way to conquering the entire country.
Indeed. And now they have created a creature which now has destroyed their business schools, law schools and medical schools. As it’s has always been said, and has always been true, the politician thinks about the next election, and the statesman thinks about the next generation. When have we seen a statesman?
Good question...I'm 54 and can't think of one in my lifetime.
I guess this is what happens to wealthy powerful empires, that there are just so many opportunities for leaders to score fabulous wealth (for themselves and their friends and families), that every other priority vanishes and governing is replaced by looting?
But really, to be charitable, hindsight is always easy and who could have predicted a neo-Marxist takeover of America? Led by an alliance of campus radicals, corporate execs, Deep Staters and enabled by a societywide epidemic of cowardice and careerism? Even a decade ago it would have seemed preposterous and impossible.
But the Trojan Horse called Critical Studies had already been wheeled inside the walls of our country, and while we were focused on other things, the enemies of civilization were biding their time and sharpening their weapons...
Who could have predicted a neo-Marxist takeover of America? Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, back in, ironically, 1984. The late Yuri not only predicted the takeover, he detailed the exact methodology used to do it - his old videos are still remarkably available on Youtube.
The indoctrination of successive generations resulted in the creation of a critical mass of true believers, who just recently entered career track jobs. They are applying the beliefs they have been taught, and are doing so with an apparent conviction of certainty in the exclusive righteousness of their positions. There definitely has been a dramatic shift towards Invasion of the Body Snatchers experiences within the past five years, and it is accelerating where I live.
i think this all the time, who knew how prescient a weird old scifi film cd be...
yes, agree w all your points, whether u wanna call it a cult, a religious movement, or some sort of political theology, the True Believers are filled w zeal and certitude (plus an appetite for destruction) and they will not be backing down or ceding any of the power they've dreamed of for decades, but will fight their hardest to install their beliefs anywhere and everywhere...
James Lindsay calls it "Maoism w American characteristics" and i find it hard to disagree w him.
Culture is where the culture wars started -- with the arts and humanities. And as you note, conservatives, deluded into thinking these activities peripheral or effete, conceded that ground to the post-modernists, relativists, and other nihilists. With the results we see today. Big mistake to ignore the arts. Conservatives have a lot of catching-up to do, and they can't do it with patriotic symbols, cowboy art, or Grandma Moses images of small-town America.
Oh yes so much 'catching up'. Catching up like there being 2 million tax payer funded progressive extremist Civil Society groups with monopoly decision making & influence powers in every town across the United States.
Catching up like opposition leaders to this extremism (conservatives, moderate liberals, libertarians) having managed to only set up 0.02% of these 2 million groups effectively leaving them to run rampant unopposed.
How is this level of universal 'stupidity' not totally and laughably deliberate?
“never once been checked by even the reddest of states and their representatives” exactly and why do we keep re-electing them?
This is changing, luckily. I'm working with legislators in Florida and Texas on abolishing the DEI bureaucracy in public universities. They are very receptive to this and want to take action.
This is great news. Looking forward to learning more about these initiatives as they are implemented. Remember, though, 'personnel is policy'; meaning, the funding of this noxious DEI bureaucracy must be diverted to more worthwhile educational programs (or returned to the taxpayers of Florida). Either way, those behind the woke takeover of these universities should be polishing their resumes and contacting their Linked-in networks.
for about 30 yrs Republican pols have treated Republican voters much like how Colonel Sanders treated chickens...
The priorities they fought for were: tax cuts, corporate profits, more tax cuts, open borders, the destruction of wages and unions; then when election season rolled around they added unlimited guns and the protection of fetuses.
These represent the successes of the modern Conservative movement. Things like education, esp the Humanities, coded as effete to them, or something adults in the real world only scoff at ("wait till those French poetry majors hit the real world!"), and thus the Humanities became the beach-head their opponents conquered on the way to conquering the entire country.
We need to recapture the humanities. Now.
Indeed. And now they have created a creature which now has destroyed their business schools, law schools and medical schools. As it’s has always been said, and has always been true, the politician thinks about the next election, and the statesman thinks about the next generation. When have we seen a statesman?
Good question...I'm 54 and can't think of one in my lifetime.
I guess this is what happens to wealthy powerful empires, that there are just so many opportunities for leaders to score fabulous wealth (for themselves and their friends and families), that every other priority vanishes and governing is replaced by looting?
But really, to be charitable, hindsight is always easy and who could have predicted a neo-Marxist takeover of America? Led by an alliance of campus radicals, corporate execs, Deep Staters and enabled by a societywide epidemic of cowardice and careerism? Even a decade ago it would have seemed preposterous and impossible.
But the Trojan Horse called Critical Studies had already been wheeled inside the walls of our country, and while we were focused on other things, the enemies of civilization were biding their time and sharpening their weapons...
Who could have predicted a neo-Marxist takeover of America? Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, back in, ironically, 1984. The late Yuri not only predicted the takeover, he detailed the exact methodology used to do it - his old videos are still remarkably available on Youtube.
The indoctrination of successive generations resulted in the creation of a critical mass of true believers, who just recently entered career track jobs. They are applying the beliefs they have been taught, and are doing so with an apparent conviction of certainty in the exclusive righteousness of their positions. There definitely has been a dramatic shift towards Invasion of the Body Snatchers experiences within the past five years, and it is accelerating where I live.
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" !!
i think this all the time, who knew how prescient a weird old scifi film cd be...
yes, agree w all your points, whether u wanna call it a cult, a religious movement, or some sort of political theology, the True Believers are filled w zeal and certitude (plus an appetite for destruction) and they will not be backing down or ceding any of the power they've dreamed of for decades, but will fight their hardest to install their beliefs anywhere and everywhere...
James Lindsay calls it "Maoism w American characteristics" and i find it hard to disagree w him.
Yes, exactly. That Lindsay reference, for those who wish to see or read his speech is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc0684V2ej8 ; transcript: https://www.middlemaga.com/post/we-are-in-an-informational-civil-war-and-james-lindsay-is-a-general-must-watch-speech
Culture is where the culture wars started -- with the arts and humanities. And as you note, conservatives, deluded into thinking these activities peripheral or effete, conceded that ground to the post-modernists, relativists, and other nihilists. With the results we see today. Big mistake to ignore the arts. Conservatives have a lot of catching-up to do, and they can't do it with patriotic symbols, cowboy art, or Grandma Moses images of small-town America.
Oh yes so much 'catching up'. Catching up like there being 2 million tax payer funded progressive extremist Civil Society groups with monopoly decision making & influence powers in every town across the United States.
Catching up like opposition leaders to this extremism (conservatives, moderate liberals, libertarians) having managed to only set up 0.02% of these 2 million groups effectively leaving them to run rampant unopposed.
How is this level of universal 'stupidity' not totally and laughably deliberate?
Yes, certainly an imbalance there. If taxpayers ever get a hold of what their taxes have been paying for,... there will be hell to pay.
And the Democrats in the WH under Obama & Biden? Happy with their performance?