A lot of insiders have been saying for many years that the root of American cultural problems is in its universities. The intellectual and social atmosphere in those places has long since turned poisonous. It was clear where this was going way back, in W.Buckley’s “God and Man at Yale”, 1951. The rot was well emplaced by the time of Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind”, 1987. Angelo Codevilla defined the modern problem, in 2010, created by these fanatically ideological universities, that created a malicious leadership class.
Since politics is downstream of culture, and American culture is driven largely by its elites, and these elites are brainwashed in universities, the route of transmission is obvious.
I dont see how this can be resolved at this point. You are stuck with millions of poisoned minds ruling every institution, and these people are sick for life (people cant really be persuaded en masse, nearly all are what they are after childhood) and there is no alternate pool from which they can be individually replaced. It will take a genuine revolution in which all institutions are destroyed and rebuilt from scratch.
“I don’t see how this can be resolved at this point.”
No doubt it is a TOUGH challenge, but the challenge was equally immense to the communists and radical leftists in the 50s and 60s. But they took a long view and got the changes they wanted put in place. It took them 60 to 70 years and reversing it will take equally long. You have to retrain two, three or even four generations of Americans.
Desantis is making it happen in Florida. You know that the leftists will be out en force to destroy this project. It’s going to be interesting watching this play out.
Hillsdale College has survived and prospered in spite of the tall odds against it.
Probably the only possibility is something like DeSantis has started in Florida. People and governments who agree need to create conservative, or simply true, open universities that teach critical thinking and factual history, and allow all viewpoints. Create real educational as opposed to indoctrination institutions to compete with the schools ruined by leftism and closed mindedness.
Create genuine alternatives all around the nation to compete with the indoctrination institutions. I think large numbers of parents would opt for alternatives if available.