Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What a college boy taught me the other day...

I was on a plane trip with a young, polite, articulate, well-mannered, thoughtful fellow who just graduated with his BS degree in Political Science.


1) Capitalism has never worked.
2) Karl Marx never advocated violence.
3) Karl Marx just wanted workers to get a fair share.
4) George Washington had syphilis.
5) We must have a strong central govt to bring social change.
6) States rights always results in loss of civil rights.
7) The Christian couple who owned the photography studio in New Mexico and refused to take pics of lesbian faux wedding were in the wrong; if you engage in public business you can't just do what you want.
8) Gay, (deviant) marriage is the natural evolution of our society seeking and obtaining greater justice for all.
9) Paul's letter to the Romans, chapter one, does not condemn sodomy.
10) Within ten years gay marriage will be open, legal, normal and accepted all throughout the USA.
11) Constitution must be viewed as a living document because the founders did not have cell phones or airplanes.

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Kid came from the Midwest, raised RC, had an athletic scholarship.


Until we shut down the communist factories, (ie the colleges) our nation will NEVER recover from the evils of atheistic socialism.

excellent

Tell me you made that up just for yucks.

No sir, I am flat out dead serious, God is my witness. This young man's sincerity, earnestness, true-believer attitude really left me somewhat shaken. I asked my nieces several years ago what biographies they had been assigned to read lately, none on any of the founding fathers, the only name they could come up with was Harriet Tubman.

Our Colleges are run by all the damned commie hippie Vietnam war protesters. I think it is true.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Zjc1ZTAxZThiNmUxM2UxMDI2ZGU3OWZiZjA4NWM2ZDg=

Sad, but this is all too believable. On a recent flight, I had an 'enlightened' young lady attempt to explain similar silliness. In addition to random theories, she was quite keen on exclaiming how the government was the answer to all of the US problems. Rather than let her prattle on about these things, I commended her for her enthusiasm and the politely asked her a couple simple questions:

1. Can she name 2 or 3 things the US government has ever done well? 1 thing? Any government?
2. Could she name 1 person in the government who she would trust with her life -- while this person was also caring for the lives of the rest of the 300 million people in the US?
3. Can she recite the major points of the Bill of Rights -- not necessarily word for word, and not in any particular order? And can she tell me which of them she would like to see eliminated?

After recovering from the 'deer in the headlights' look, she mumbled something about "a**h***" and went back to her book.

As we were exiting, I commented to her that she made me feel really old because I was old enough to remember when young people rebelled against "the system" rather than bowing down to it. This time she kept her mumble quiet enough that I couldn't make it out.

Sounds like some good anecdotal evidence as to why we should elect folks who want to get the Federal government out of the education business...and support universities that have, at least, a balanced point of view.

Remember when conservative politicians campaigned on doing away with the Dept of Education(indoctrination)?

Edit to add that we either get govt indoctrination out of schools or accept that it is inevitable that we will face a civil war at some point in the relatively near future. This sort of book based puke will destroy the country, if it has not already been done. Higher education is run by a bunch of [bleep] hippies.

I think you are right altogether.

This struck a nerve with me when I read it last year and it tied up a lot of loose ends in my understanding:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_communist_connectio.html

He explains why/how most Americans didn't give a rat's arse that Obama is a documented, articulate, thoughtful, published, communist.

I don't remember if it was a quote or original, but I had an advisor who said something like the best thing to do for the educational system would be to get rid of the colleges of education.

That is how the obamanation got elected.

So why are so many folks so intent on getting their little brats a college ed.???? Noe of the crap stated here seems to be likely to provide a living for those brats. Esp. since they appear to be spoiled rotten and believe the restrictions are only for the unwashed masses.

Where are these people? We elect people who act like they will have that point of view, but when they get into office, they do a 180.

Witness the newly appointed senator from NY.........wow, what an about face.

MM

The ignorance is just appalling.

But, try talking to some of their teachers/professors sometime. Many don't think like the mainstream.

Note the major of the college boy in the original post. Many departments are infested with leftists/radicals, but in poly sci they're paid to spout their tripe.

Excellent points, just look at the Black Panthers, Obama's buddy Bill Ayers and a bunch of others of that ilk. Their all considered to be respected Educators. Enough Said.

Well, I thought I was going to get rich waterskiing when I was 18. He'll probably learn a little when he starts paying his own bills.

Funny he should bring up Paul. Wasn't it Paul that pointed out that some folks are "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."?

I'd say this kid fits that description very well.

Rich

He's correct on 5 and 10.

On 5,the central government is necessary to bring about social change. Nobody is saying it's change for the better!

On 10, yes in 10 years it will be will be socially acceptable. The training kids are receiving in schools will come to fruition. The is part of our following Rome down the path to oblivion. What is widely considered deviant behavior today will become accepted and even celebrated. Paul said that because they turned from God they were given unto their vile passions, where women gave up their natural use a lay with women, and men burn in their lust for men. Hit that right on the head didn't he?

It'd be interesting to explore his definition of "worked," of course, but perhaps more informative would be to have him show a real-world situation in which, given his definition of "worked" which capitalism fails, socialism has "worked."


True enough, as far as I know. The fundamental problem anarcho-socialists run into is that whether or not they're correct that all property belongs to the Collective rather than to individuals, the vast majority of property in the world exists in a state where there are individuals who think that it belongs to them. It's true that this is just an impression in a mind, but unfortunately for ansocs it seems to be the sort of impression that's stubbornly impervious to Marxist re-education. In the real world, said individuals have always been just insufferable when the property that they believe belongs to them is appropriated for the Collective, no matter how enthusiastic the re-education programs have been. So far, no one has come up with a solution to the problem other than simply killing them. Not very Marxist, perhaps, but evidently a necessary step on the way to the glory of a Marxist society, and therefore tolerable if regrettable.


And the Federal Reserve functions to stabilize our currency.


Under the wing of an airplane in flight, air actually flows forward for a short distance before it runs up across the leading edge and back over the top.


A strong central government certainly has brought social changes. There's the Great Depression; there's World Wars I and II; there's the Vietnam War; there's the rotting of the inner cities; there's the War On Drugs. Without such a strong central government, we would almost certainly have seen much less social change.


Any government power results in the loss of civil rights.


Understandable, if everyone belongs not to himself but to the Collective. However, suppose he ran a business, according to good socialist principles, and the State, acting in its role as voice of the Collective, decreed instead that he must run it according to capitalist principles. Would he then be just as much in the wrong as the photographers?


If this is the case, then it shouldn't require any help from the State.


You know when God tells Adam and Eve and the whole Creation, "Go forth and multiply and replenish the earth?"
Replenish? Fill up again? What was here before? What happened to it?


I see.


Constitution? Who cares about the Constitution anymore? Living, dead, whatever, it's no longer a credible threat to our form of government.

You are correct. He's typical of what they put out of college political science programs.

When I was working on my teaching credentials, one course I took was in political science, and the professor tried his best to pour all that crap down the kids throats. I was a lot older than the other students (I think I was even a little older than the professor), though, and knew better. I raised my hand and challenged him all the way, providing the alternate view/counter argument to everything he said. He hated me, but those kids didn't only hear one side. I made sure of that.

I was a lot older than the other students (I think I was even a little older than the professor), though, and knew better. I raised my hand and challenged him all the way, providing the alternate view/counter argument to everything he said. He hated me, but those kids didn't only hear one side. I made sure of that.
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The TRH show, once again.

Do you really feel the students hearing your pitch on things made them any wiser?