Maybe when companies stop hiring students from the worst offenders there will be changes. I think universities funded with taxpayer money should be prohibited from political activity as well. It really bothers me that my taxes go toward marxist indoctrination.
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He brings up a good pint. Academics are the classic example of being eaten by the monster they created. It’s happened many times.
I recall reading about the Castro Marxist revolution. Havana University was the Oldest college in the Western Hemisphere. Almost a half millennium old. They had survived pirates, diseases, Hurricanes wars and conquest. Castro kept them closed THREE years while he weeded out anti-revolutionary “elements”…probably shot by Che.
Despite many ivory tower leftist types who taught there, praised him/revolution and talked about the oppressed peoples etc etc.
The fall of universities started way WAY before Vietnam.
One can trace it back to the mid to early 1900’s, with various “philanthropic” organizations grants. Follow the money. I forget the details (look at this a few years ago), but I recollect there were congressional hearings, before WW2, that delved into banking and foundation influences into universities. I think this is DSC stuff, part of the Swamp.
Once they had the PHDs, over decades they wormed their way into professors, then students who became professors, then high schools, etc.
A political/educational Cancer.
“I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of Workers!”
The Vietnam War and less often the Korean War have been lumped together with modern endless neocon wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Ukraine as a part of the military industrial complex get rich operation.
The military industrial complex may have been a part of the mix in the Vietnam War, but a greater component was the fight against communism. Patton knew the USSR was evil, had he been turned lose today’s issues with Red China and our own internal communist problems would not exist. The same applies to MacArthur in the Korean war.
The Vietnam War was also to fight communism. The anti war effort mentioned in the article played a major effort in turning Americans against the war as well as continued propaganda through the years getting people to believe it was both an unjust war and militarily lost.
It was not militarily lost, rather militarily successful enough to get the Paris Peace Accord (treaty) that ended the war. The North disregarded the treaty and invaded the South again. The war was lost when Ted Kennedy led the effort to defund the South and the South literally ran out of gas and bullets and had to surrender.
That was our last effort to end communism. To the contrary we let it flourish in our universities as well as send most of our manufacturing abilities to Red China, our sworn enemy, so we could buy all their goods so they could upgrade their military to a modern communist threat all over the world.
While the patriots went off to fight communism, the weak men who stayed behind embraced communism as a rationale and reason for their refusal to fight. Embedded in the safe enclaves of academia, they proliferated and hired their own kind until it became the dominant point of view. And now the patriots are the ones run off of campus as the extremists.
I was an electrical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison from January 1966 through graduation June 1970. I was also an Army National Guardsman during the same period, called up to fight riots in the last four years.
The animals who rioted during that time and celebrated the Fall of Saigon are the same animals who have dragged a once great institution into the proverbial toilet. They used their student deferments to avoid the draft and service to their country, choosing rather to serve the international communist movement which allowed them the comfort of free sex and drug access.
Now, those same animals are actively applying their tried and true methods used to destroy South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos to destroy this country…to foul their own nest so to speak.
I am 77 years old and hopefully will not see the final result, but I fear for my son and my grandchildren.
The Deep State controls the universities.
You get to be a professor by bringing in grant money. Control who gets government grants and you control the faculty.
I remember California University students having pro-North Vietnam candle light marches when Vietnam and Cambodia fell to the commies. Then the Killing Fields began.
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Reminds me of the old Li’l Abner comic strip from 1968 in which the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (S.W.I.N.E.) take over the campus.
The terrified University Regents decide to sell the University! The only buyers were the Mafia who brings in the mob enforcers.
Here come the SWINE protesting!
I still get a thrill remembering how the leader of the S.W.I.N.E. used his front teeth to assault the brass knuckles of the mob enforcers. Who says brass won’t make a spark! These did. Big ones at that!
Anyone else remember that old comic strip? Could easily be reprinted today with no changes.
Yep. In the 60s when I was in college the “professor” of my poli sci class was a card carrying communist. He and I argued constantly as I was a YAF member.
Communist revolutions start when some jackass wants to live in the palace and ride in the government limousines and airplanes and have lots of “swimmer Girls” but doesn’t see how he can have that under the present system.
He doesn’t give a damn about the people.
He just needs the people to kill and die for him.
He just wants that good life.
And millions of people do kill and die for him.
I had a college deferment (II-S) for four years from 1968-1972, and it’s my opinion that the existence of those draft deferments was the worst policy decision of the whole Vietnam era (and the competition is stiff).
Read the last clause of the Declaration of War on the Empire of Japan: “...to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States”.
Congress failed to declare war on North Vietnam, failed to impeach and remove Lyndon Johnson and Robert MacNamara for illicit exercise of the War Power, sheltered their own children and their friends from the consequences of allowing war without proper authority, and then claimed the right to bitch about it incessantly.
Bill Buckley wrote “God and Man at Yale” in 1951. The poison was already in total control by then.