I wasn't really talking about politics, I was talking about the attitude of English professors I've dealt with to think that liberalism = intelligence, and grade accordingly. I had a history teacher who was a major lib, but she respected other peoples' views. Since I could defend mine and state mine adequately, she liked me. It was one of the best fluff classes I ever had. But those professors are the exception, not the rule, today.
Also I absorbed a great deal of the "hard science undergraduate" attitude of "we have to take these easy classes, because they're required, and we have to put up with arrogant professors who will downgrade us for any of our opinions, but in a few years we'll be succesful and this won't matter". But it hurts so much to spend time and money on a class where you get your views torn apart or ridiculed.
All good and fine Jen. I am sure that has been your experience.
But you made an over-generalization. All I am saying is that you're painting with too broad a brush.