Why Do Colleges Make People Unhappy?

My friend James Creigh recently alerted me to a new study showing that relatively young (18-to-40-year-old) American women who consider themselves “liberal” are more than twice as likely to be unhappy as those calling themselves “conservative.” According to the 2024 American Family Survey of 3,000 individuals, only 12 percent of liberal women said they were “completely satisfied with life,” compared with 28 percent of moderate and 37 percent of conservative women. Other statistics, for example on very high suicide rates among young American males, suggest that the existence of a depressing ennui is not restricted to women.

How and where do young Americans form their political beliefs and other perspectives on life? In many different ways and places, of course, but the college experience is often the most important, training young persons during that critical transition between adolescence and adulthood.

It is indeed the universities that have been at the forefront of the modern DEI (“diversity, equity, and inclusion”) obsession, stressing perceived racial and other injustices. Many studies have shown that college faculty are overwhelmingly liberal in their orientation. Exploding administrative bureaucracies have also contributed to the crowding out of analyses of traditional truths and ideas.

Moreover, student-affairs offices often almost rejoice in flouting traditional moral standards. For example, undergraduate students tell me that their schools practically drop condoms out of airplanes over campus and not only tolerate but almost tacitly encourage premarital sex in student housing. And, returning to female unhappiness, remember that today’s colleges are dominated by women, who constitute nearly 60 percent of enrollments.

“You deserve better. You’re a victim. Nothing is your fault.”Exactly correct. It is the leftists plan of action in our Universities.

1. Divide based on race, religion, language, culture, sex, regions etc.
2. Make each group feel they are a victim. That is easy with the young and unwise. By making them into victims they then have an excuse for their own failures due to being lazy or intellectually not prepared for university level courses. Oddly the most discrimanated group of students are bright motivated Asian students with very high college entrance scores. Their admission rates are far below what they should be if based on exam scores and grades an ability and closely followed by whites with similar merits.
3. Make each divided group feel they must have reparations for the inequities that they suffer in their minds.
4. Alienate them from their traditional families they came from and those values to remove their checks on what is proper and not. Thus acts of political violence are not wrong but noble.
5. 1-2-3-4 have made them angry and easily manipulated by the hierarchy of the left. The hierarchy are always well educated, intelligent and extreme leftist Marxists, some are very rich like George Soros and the WEF people. They regard those they manipulate as useful idiots that are disposable.

That is what the professors in our universities teach our students. Saul Alinsky spelled it all out in his book "Rules for Radicals."

In the late 60s in our universities the kids were into drugs, sex, rock and roll and praying they not be drafted to fight in Vietnam. The leftist disease of Berkley had not infected all the major universities then. It has now. Here in Texas many of us call Austin the home of The University of Texas, "Berkley on the Colorado." The Colorado river runs through the city. Austin is hopelessly left. I once considered Austin the "Greatest Little City in the USA." It is no longer that.

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