” Unlike the poli sci profs I encountered at the college level.”
What is poly sci anyway? It looked to me like an “anything goes” BS course of study. I skipped it in order to take more history courses.
Political Science, which my friend and I called “OBS” for “Opinionated B/S.” Along with a degree in German, it was my ticket to law school. I should have picked up a third degree in history, which I could have easily accomplished in four year, but it just didn’t occur to me at the time.
There was no question that the Political Science department at Indiana University was chock full of leftists, democrats and other outright communists. We had a grad student instructor who wore her Che fatigues to class every day. She was “down for the struggle” and ready to man the barricades; just as soon as she finished her latte. My “Comparative Political Systems” prof should have called the class “Soviet Communism Here and Now.” He wanted the workers to control the means of production and all that. Obviously he’d never spent a day of his life outside of academia. Having worked commercial construction the past summer, I knew how that would turn out.
I should have agreed with him, espoused the belief that students should control the means of production of grades, formed a “Council of Students’ Soviet,” and had the class vote ourselves “A’s.” The we could successfully dissolve the class and head to Nick’s for some brews. That would have been a far more productive use of my time.
I learned a lot about the left while I was there. Unfortunately, too many of my colleagues drank the Kool Ade, and now have their hands on the levers of power in this country.