[Vicki]

And then it hit me. She was obviously scared to death. She was scared to tell me her views face-to-face because students and teachers were standing around when she approached me.

They are scared, very scared. During the election my daughter who attends college asked me for a Bush Button, but told me she would have to hide it.

She voted for Bush but had to tell her college "friends" that she voted for Gore. I cannot stress enough how out spoken she is. At home she has never been afraid to go against the "popular opinion" even among her peers. It made me feel mad as well as sad that she would feel that much pressure to have to lie about who she voted for. She told me that if she told the truth they would never leave her alone.

[Calpernia]

I call that the crab theory.

Picture a bucket of crabs. They will RIP your arms and claws off while crawling over you to get out of the bucket. They keep each other from getting out. That is no different then the unsuccessful, uneducated, closed minded.

They can't do for themselves, so they don't want anyone else to do either.

[duvausa]

Been there. My son was at USC during the 2000 election—when his friends found out he was voting for Bush they started calling him a Nazi. It stuck for weeks. And USC is probably more conservative than most big universities.

[VeniVidiVici]

They are scared, very scared. During the election my daughter who attends college asked me for a Bush Button, but told me she would have to hide it

Isn't multiculturalism a grand thing? A concept that teaches that there is only one way to see things? Kids are taught not to speak-up or else they risk being ostracized. What's even funnier is that the loony left just doesn't see that they've ushered in 1984 on the backs of their programs.

When my son was in 4th grade, his school held mock elections for the 1996 presidential race. Complete with campaign signs, electioneering, etc., he wore a button to school that said Not Clinton (heck, I didn't know he wore it but made me proud).

His teacher made him take it off.