Doublethink in real life. What is even worse is that they have the authority to throw the "liberal straight ticket" into the sewer where it belongs yet tenaciously hold onto it; they don't have to fear loss of funding that much.
My wife works at a university. It is amazing how many people profess every liberal belief (so called liberal straight ticket) but when you have a private conversation you find out that they think most of it is nonsense
The biggest problem is that you find most of the concentration of brainless liberal jackasses in the administration of most colleges and universities. The people I'm usually talking to are lower level professors. The completely brainless administrators make their life difficult, even if they profess to be liberal. If they dare show the slightest bit of conserativesm, they are singled out for extra abuse. Once they are tenured, they can be a little more outspoken. But even after achieving that status, the administration still has ways to make like difficult should they choose to. And if you are the slightest bit conservative, they will choose to.