Posted on 10/21/2017 10:26:28 AM PDT by simpson96
RUSH: Campus Reform, I love these guys. Campus Reform, theyre actually a group of young entrepreneurs, have their website, Campus Reform, they do some great work. They remind me of me back when this program was beginning. And heres what they did. This is so useful. This is such a teachable moment.
They took a film crew to a major college campus, George Washington University, in Washington, and they grabbed random students and they gave them details of Donald Trumps tax plan, but they didnt tell the students it was Trumps tax plan. They told the students it was Bernie Sanderss tax plan.
And they went through the details. Reducing the corporate rate down to 25 percent, all of the things in the Trump tax plan that are pro-consumer. And all of these kids, when they thought they were answering questions about Bernies tax plan loved it. They supported it. They adored it. Its obvious they dont know what they think they know. They dont know what theyre talking about.
Its obvious these students are not educated. It is obvious that they are regurgitating phrases that they hear from friends and on social media, in classrooms, because their reaction to it was just, well, it was clear to me that even while they were agreeing with it, they hadnt thought about it. And they didnt really know what they were agreeing with. Just because it was Bernie Sanderss tax plan, it was great. And they were trying to sound educated, informed and all that. And its clear they werent.
At the end of the video it only takes about 3-1/2 minutes to watch it the Campus Reform dude tells them all, Im sorry, this is not Bernie Sanderss tax plan. Its Donald Trumps, and all of these students are shocked into stunned silence and cannot believe it. And then they start muttering: Well, I I I I dont know. Um, maybe? Well, it could be Trumps not that bad. I dont know. Really? No. Are you kidding me? No. But most of them are just blank staring at the guy from Campus Reform. And then a couple of them
And if you really, really know how to look, a couple of them do seem to indicate that they might be frustrated they were lied to by the Campus Reform guy (laughing), not by the people telling them that Trumps tax plan is horrible, because thats what they have been told! So its a great reminder that and the college students are a microcosm. I dont think this phenomenon is exclusive to them. Peoples partisan biases determine what they think and believe and what they think is honest and false true and false rather than actually applying their own mind to it.
I have a friend This is interesting. I just reminded myself of this. I have a friend who is taking her son on a tour of major colleges around the country, because hes not crazy about going to college and, of course, as the parent she thinks that he should. I told her what I think the problem is. Your kid is brilliant, and his brain needs to be stimulated. If somebodys just going to preach and do lectures and so forth, whoever, theyre not going to reach your son. The kid is really Hes 19 or 18 and hes literally Hes brilliant.
So she took him, I think, a couple days ago to Hillsdale College in Michigan, and they let him sit in on two classes on a politics class and a political history class and she told me he was just lit up. He just loved it. Even as a guest student sitting in there, he felt fully engaged because, he said, This is the first college this is the first classroom Ive been in where Ive actually been made to think, where Ive actually been encouraged to think rather than just absorb, and he was jazzed about it. This is whats missing in so much of education.
This kids brain needs to be stimulated. Its a gold mine waiting to be tapped, and apparently these two classes at Hillsdale did the trick. I dont know what other universities are on the tour and how many of them remain and where theyve gone up til now. But that stood out. Now Hillsdale, obviously, is a good choice. But I think if you look at that video and well put the link to it up at RushLimbaugh.com. In mere moments, youll be able to link to it. (sigh) Look, I know were talking about teenagers and low twenties.
But these students that Campus Reform found, they havent yet obviously found their stride. Theyre just Theyre not that informed. But they think they are, obviously, and it struck me, when I watched this just how I dont know. Im having a tough time describing what Im seeing. Its not about being stupid or dumb or any of that. It just doesnt seem like theyre in the learning mode. They already know it all. And thats not untypical, I know, of people that age. But it just makes me think. I dont think, at many universities today in undergrad programs, theres a whole lot of brain stimulation going on.
Theres a lot of preaching to and students expected to absorb, but not challenge and not think about what theyre hearing. And thats what I saw when I watched this video. They love Trumps tax plan except they thought it was Bernie Sanders. If you had half a brain and you listened to the details of the tax plan, one of these students should have known, Thats not Bernies tax plan! I know Bernies tax plan and Bernies not cutting anybodys taxes. What are you trying to tell me? Bernie Sanders wants to cut the corporate rate to 25%? But they just ate it all up. Whatever this guy told them Bernies tax plan was, they absorbed it and loved it.
Even though it goes against everything they claimed to believe. But since it was Bernies, it was cool and when they found out it was Trumps, they were stumped. They didnt know what to think.
All this is demonstrating is that after you pay $80,000 in tuition....what you have is a dimwit kid, unable to handle reality, and can’t think for himself. You could have given the kid the money and sent him to Disneyland for four years and gotten the same wisdom and education.
The real hoot would be watching the parents as they realize their children are being taught by fools... for thirty grand a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctz_dHfYfb8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctz_dHfYfb8
The woman’s comments at the end were spot on.
I honestly think that ALL Liberal college don’t give a rat’s rump about ANYTHING other than indoctrination.
They know they have a sweet deal here; parents PAYING big bucks to LET THEM indoctrinate their kids.
What could be an easier way to spread Socialism? I mean, it’s in the Grand Plan of Communism and all that.
(And, yes. This has been going on FOREVER - but hopefully more parents are waking up to this FACT.)
Just proves my point about these college kids..they repeat whatever they are told by their Commie professors..they love Trump’s tax plan, as long as they think Bernie Sanders came up with it, the second they learn its President Trump’s plan they hate it
The power of branding.
Same here with the question asked who lived in luxurious estates/homes depicted on a poster in front of the WH - poor dumb people!! Our future! What was funny was the first guy said Rubio and a few after that said Rubio as if they couldn’t read the names of the others. I have no idea why anyone would have said Rubio to begin with.
That video was hilarious.
AND financially ripping off the parents...
...they didnt tell the students it was Trumps tax plan. They told the students it was Bernie Sanderss tax plan. And they went through the details. Reducing the corporate rate down to 25 percent, all of the things in the Trump tax plan that are pro-consumer. And all of these kids, when they thought they were answering questions about Bernies tax plan loved it. They supported it. They adored it. Its obvious they dont know what they think they know. They dont know what theyre talking about."It'll mean we will be able to have a free edu-ma-cation, just like Bernie said we could1" ;')
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