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I can only imagine, but I am not in the least surprised.

The indoctrination of kids with political correctness, diversity training and multiculturalism takes place and continues onward from the same age many of my generation learned about the Golden Rule. And from what I can tell, it is intense, institutionalized and mandatory.

That any of these kids come through with the ability to think for themselves is a testament to the many good parents out there, but even the best kids can get sucked into this stuff.

I went to college when I got out of the Navy at the age of 21, and was pretty well-traveled and independent-thinking (or so I thought)

I remember taking Sociology, and reading "Walden II" for the course. That book describes a socialist utopia, as does sociology as a "science" for getting there. I was SOOOOO impressed. I thought it was a shame our entire country, nay, the world was not modeled after Walden II.

It is an embarrassing memory for me. I look back now, and see how attractive that concept is to someone who just doesn't understand exactly what it is, and why it has proved to be a terminally flawed concept again, and again, and again (as described in "The Road to Serfdom" by FA Hayek)

Someone always thinks that it fails because "it wasn't done correctly" or that "the next time we won't make the same mistakes" instead of realizing that it is a flawed concept from the start, like a perpetual motion machine. No matter how much you tinker with it, it is doomed to failure.

Your experience is not unique, trust me. What I often see in my classes is kind of an underlying unthinking stereotyping of conservative views. This comes from the ideas promoted by (often equally gullible) secondary teachers who teach the party line because that is what they know. Some of it is pretty raw and a lot of it is as filled with hate towards America as the gentlemen who wrote the thing on King Kong.

In my experience, the majority of parents do not really have much influence on what their kids think. This allows the liberal clique to do things.

Most kids I have taught over the last three decades have great instincts but have never been encouraged to focus on what they believe and why they believe it.

One last story which I hope this list picks up on. Once upon a time I was mistakenly invited to a Marxist conference in Montana (paid for by Montana taxpayers, by the way.) But I went, because, well, it promised to be too much fun to miss. On the second day of the conference, they bussed in a number of high school teachers from central Montana. The speaker that day, one of the best known liberal arts professors in the country, opened his talk with the words: "isn't it great we don't have to talk about Robert E. Lee anymore?"

So that is where we are.

McVey