If there is a major (9-11, Paris, Mumbai, Beslan) terrorist attack in the USA before November, Trump wins 50 states.
Of course, if it’s so bad that the lights go out....no electricity, no elections.
No. The party left us a long time ago.
Good post. I’m so glad I attended a university before they all went to Hades.
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Great article !
In short, the bad news for us is that the Left dominates the cultural high ground. The good news is that they've gone about as far as they can go.
Well, no. They have gone as far as they can go without violence, or rather without enough violence to result in a violent backlash. They will if ever they can, but that isn't, fortunately, in the cards for a long time.
But yes, they've gone as far as they can by saturation. And within certain - by NO means all - faculties the liberal arts departments do exhibit the 11:1 dominance the author cites. There is a problem with this, because that doesn't translate very well to other departments that cling rather stubbornly to the objective truth because that's how science, mathematics, and engineering are done. You can certainly build a bridge predicated on the laws of physics being infinitely subject to perception, and steel being stronger than cardboard only someone's opinion, but at some point driving over the thing brings those flights of intellectual fancy into contact with the hard, cold water.
That would normally be the extent of the possible dominance of what is, in the end, a profoundly anti-intellectual approach to human knowledge but for one thing: violence. Did the bridge fail? Shoot the engineer - no, not the one who built it on false precepts, but the one who insists that it failed because you're wrong about the laws of physics, that they are in fact immutable. Shoot him, you can't control him.
That does tend to have a rather negative effect on the products of science and engineering, to be sure. But it is no fantasy: Ayn Rand was writing not on what she imagined, but on what she had observed, and we've been down this road before. It absolutely can go to the length of Soviet biology in Lysenko or Nazi Aryan racial theory, and those can become official state dogma, opposition to which is a death sentence first to career, and then to the person. The academy is not immune from this madness until it burns itself out in the fruits of idiocy. Sometimes the underlying society survives. Sometimes it doesn't.
Still, it isn't cause for despair, because this time the victims are armed and aware, and the resistance is mounting. The kind that counts isn't in presidential politics, but that certainly helps. The kind that counts is the kind that protects the kid who says that the emperor is naked, because if they can't silence or kill him, they lose.