[nathanbedford]

In the months leading up to the second world war we saw the same inversion of reason among the students at Oxford who responded to a debate at the Oxford Union and declared that they would never fight to defend their country. Certainly, they were no less disillusioned with England than students in America attending places like Harvard are with America.

In the face of this mindlessness, this servility to the leftism of the Oxford faculty (remember this was before the Ribbentrop/Molotov pact which caused great disillusionment on the left), this leftist impulse toward "critical thinking" as a tool to tear down the nation state to enable socialism to pour through the breach, England was rendered nearly naked in the presence of evil. But the faculty at Oxford did not count on the blundering of Corporal Hitler who made all clear by his invasion of Poland and sealed his own fate by declaring war on the United States after Pearl Harbor.

Sadly, there is reason to believe that the state of our faculty and our students in America today is worse than the mindset at Oxford Union in that day. We have the specter of Americans leaping to their deaths on 9/11 and today the specter of Americans being beheaded in front of the cameras on the Sands of the Middle East. Nothing seems to move the modern American left.

We always knew the left was immune to reason but now they are immune to emotion as well.

[CorporateStepsister]

To me this is normalcy bias, a determination to keep ‘carrying on’ as if nothing is happening. A refusal to face reality and a determination to make someone else deal with the problem rather than become a mature adult and face it themselves.

[married21]

College students today were little kids (5-7) on 9/11. They don’t remember it.

[21twelve]

My daughter (High School Jr.) said she and another guy are the only ones in her class that stand for the pledge each morning. The teacher had some guy that helps out around the school that had been in Vietnam to talk to them about the pledge. She said the kids couldn’t care less.