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To: RunningWolf

From what I hear the students are increasingly more conservative, breaking with the faculty. Given the tendency of kids that age to be oppositional to adult authority, there's bound to be a backlash against an aging liberal establishment.


16 posted on 03/02/2006 11:49:15 AM PST by colorado tanker (We need more "chicken-bleep Democrats" in the Senate!)
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To: colorado tanker
Good!

We don't get that reported to much either do we? And the W. Churchill and P. Mirecki incidents cant help the credibility of liberal academia either.

We may see it reach critical mass by the next POTUS election.

Wolf
18 posted on 03/02/2006 12:00:21 PM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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re: Given the tendency of kids that age to be oppositional to adult authority, there's bound to be a backlash against an aging liberal establishment.)))

Not only harden the opposition, but create one where none previously existed. Bossiness is just a prosaic kind of will to power, the lust for domination. Bullies might intimidate, but they also foster steadfast opposition. I think the present teens and young people might catch on--they created the catchy neologism, the contemptuous and dismissive "poser".

22 posted on 03/02/2006 4:33:45 PM PST by Mamzelle
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