I seldom write about political issues, but the left has got to be exposed before they ruin our youth in this country and scar everything sacred.
Liberalism, at one time was distinct from the Democratic Party and leftist thinking but they have been slowly merging so that there are few distinctions between them. There are those in the Democratic party that are Socialists such as Bernie Sanders who came close to being the democratic nominee for president 2016. His platform was free stuff for the lower class conveniently provided by Big Brother (big government). His major political promise was free tuition to colleges and universities. Our nearly 20 trillion national debt would double under that and his other liberal giveaway plans in a matter of years. They will promise anything and everything in order to gain power. Once in power the government grows while the private sector shrinks. The private sector where jobs are created. Sadly the left thinking is coming from our colleges and universities. The following article describes how bad it is becoming:
U.S. colleges overwhelmingly liberal, especially in certain departments
By Ana Swanson, The Washington Post Published Oct 14, 2016
America’s top universities are bastions of liberalism. That general idea probably won’t surprise many people, but the numbers behind it might.
An article recently published in ‘Econ Journal Watch’ draws on original data to show just how liberal America’s universities have become. The researchers looked at a subscription-only online database that show how vast numbers of Americans are registered in the 30 states that share this kind of information. They examine the ratio of Democrats and Republicans among tenure-track in five academic fields — economics, history, journalism/communications, law and psychology — at 40 top American universities.
The paper finds that liberals dominate these academic fields, as past research has indicated. However, Democratic-to-Republican ratios prove to be even higher than the researchers had thought, particularly in economics and history. Of the 7,243 professors they researched, 3,623 were registered Democratic and only 314 were registered Republicans. The more prestigious the university, the more liberal its faculty tended to be. Customer Service History and journalism/communications were by far the most liberal departments they looked at. Economics was the most balanced, but still had more than four times as many registered Democrats as Republicans.
Their findings also suggest that the ratio of Democrats to Republicans among humanities and social science faculty has risen in the past decade. Past research indicated the ratio in social sciences was perhaps 3.5 to 1 in 1970, rising to 8 to 1 in 2004 and 10 to 1 in 2016. The researchers also find that the ratio of registered Democrats to registered Republicans is higher among young professors, suggesting that universities will continue to become more liberal (left) over time.
They also caution that these measures aren’t perfect. Still, their findings point in one undeniable direction. In many departments, in fact, especially history and journalism, they found no registered Republicans at all. In 72 out of 170 departments they looked at, the number of professors registered to either the Green Party or the Working Families Party equaled or exceeded the number of registered Republicans.
The researchers argue that these trends result both from the topdown selection of new professors — since current professors determine new hires through consensus — and through the bottom-up choices that young people make about their careers. “Non-leftists naturally tend to select themselves out of academia,” Dennis Prager “Advises parents not to send their children to college”
There has to be a concerted effort to strengthen conservative values.
From Colorado Christian University from an article title Right and True; In Iowa, a state law threatens a pastor’s right to freely teach the Bible in his church. In Alabama, a State Supreme Court Justice faces charges from a judicial commission and risks being removed from the bench, all because he defends the Biblical definition of marriage. In California, a new law has passed the Senate and is making its way through the Assembly and, if signed into law, will silence the faith of Christian colleges and universities. Any one of us could become a target of our own government simply for what we believe. The Left has been working to criminalize Christianity for years, and here at Colorado Christian University (CCU), we’re fighting back. The hope that we have of keeping our faith legal is to train the next generation of Godly men and women to defend it. The dogma preached by the far left has gone mainstream and the results are frightening: Most of what you hear these days is flat-out wrong; Fossil fuels are bad. Illegal immigration is necessary for the economy. The science of climate change is settled. Christians are intolerant. Men and women are exactly the same. Criticizing jihad is Islamophobic. The dogma preached by the far left has gone mainstream and the results are frightening: Most of what you hear these days is flat-out wrong. Millions of Americans don’t even recognize the country they grew up in. We can’t even debate each other anymore. The shared assumptions that make a meaningful argument possible—about right and wrong, good and bad—are gone. The world is upside down. And it all seemed to happen in the blink of an eye. Any one of us could become a target of our own government simply for what we believe. The left is supposedly the people’s party. They misuse and abuse their power:
U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is above the law, as St. Helena, California residents learned last month.
Local Paul Smith wrote in to the St. Helena Star in June to describe Pelosi’s recent shoe shopping excursion at a fancy boutique, prompting a response from police chief Bill Imboden about the former House Speaker’s special status.
“Last Saturday afternoon ( June 4) I’m standing on the west side of Main Street directly across from the Hunt Avenue intersection chatting with friends. Of course, traffic was heavy in both directions,” Smith wrote. “A large perfectly polished and gleaming black SUV is attempting a left turn from Hunt onto southbound Main (not easy). Suddenly blue/red lights are flashing from the windshield area of the SUV (like you would see in an official fire/ police vehicle),” he continued. “I said to my friends, I’ve never seen that before on a ‘regular’ vehicle and I’d think that’s illegal and dangerous. They agreed.” That’s when the large black SUV jolted across two lanes of traffic, lights flashing, to park in front of a fire hydrant at the high-end shoe boutique Footcandy. “A St. Helena police car happens to be going northbound and pulls into the center lane and the officer starts shaking his arm and hollering at the driver of the SUV. While this goes on a man exits the SUV assisting a woman from the vehicle. She dashes off to Footcandy while he waits by the SUV in the red zone,” Smith explained. The police officer then drove off without confronting the driver, he wrote. “My friends and I are puzzled, say goodbye and I walk south on Main. As I approach Footcandy, Nancy Pelosi comes out with her shopping bags and the man assists her into the awaiting SUV. The SUV, with lights flashing, bursts back into southbound traffic,” Smith said. “Wow! Privilege? Power? Whose SUV, taxpayers?” he questioned. “Say it ain’t so, Nancy.” The St. Helena Police Department states that; Unfortunately local law enforcement has no authority to prevent this type of activity. The U.S. Capitol Police and the U.S. Secret Service provide dignitary protection for certain high-ranking members of the Federal Government, and this protection comes with the discretion to violate some state and local laws. In the case of Congresswoman Pelosi, she receives her protection detail from the Capitol Police. As the Chief of Police in St. Helena I can assure you we don’t like or condone their behavior, but I can tell you from personal experience that while they sympathize with the position they put us in, they will not alter their tactics to appease us. “This didn’t look like any official business to me,” Smith told the San Francisco Chronicle, which confirmed the high security shopping trip with Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill.
Clinton is expected to escape criminal charges for her “extremely careless” handling of classified information, despite the fact that the Department of Justice has prosecuted military personnel for very similar, less critical, offenses, the Daily Caller reports.