Remember Kids, Conservatives Think You Are Stupid

Here is the most important that the college students of today need to know about politics: Conservatives think you are stupid. The only reason you voted for Obama is that you are easily led, and naïve. Fortunately for our purposes, conservatives bloviate a lot and leave their bloviations where it easy to find them. Conservatives have a tendency to become adherents of positions after the fact. I was reminded of this when conservatives finally discovered feminism this last year.
But here is the point that young people of today need to know. If you don’t vote the way that they want you to, conservatives do not want you to vote. Let us first take a look at the words of Dennis Praeger

With a few exceptions -- and those exceptions are usually those rare cases when young people confront dictatorships -- when youth get involved in politics in large numbers, it is not a good thing.


So, if you are opposing Communism, and we are going to go out on a limb here and presume that Dennis has no objection, for the most part, that the 1960s civil rights movement was largely run by young people, your involvement with politics is not a good thing.
Ben Shapiro, use to be a young lion of the conservative movement, and then he got old. He now realizes that there is not percentage in supporting young people in their politics. Ben thinks the only reason you could possibly support liberals is because of your loins.

There are probably a lot of good-looking Obama students out there. And I'm sure that it's tempting to go sign up to phone bank next to that student wearing the "I Heart Abortion Rights" T-shirt.

Now, to be fair, Ben. Like Jonah Goldberg, really thinks he is funny. So that was a joke. I told you, so you would know.

I do not think, however, that one of the doyennes of the right-wing Grove City College, Paul Kengor, is joking. Kengor is a political scientist, of sorts. He has been writing books how about really, really spiritual Reagan was, and Bush II, is. The thesis of Kengor is really, really disturbing, and I will just let it speak for itself:


I should add that I've received emails in the last couple of weeks from distraught conservative parents saddened to learn that their college-student children voted for Obama. They shouldn't be surprised; sadly, these parents have unwittingly paid for precisely this. In the vast majority of the nation's colleges, this is what their children are learning at a cost of the parents' lifetime savings.

So, there you go kids, Kengor is convinced that the only reason you voted for Obama, is because your profs told you to. Here is the second part of his thesis, which is disturbing: You should not hold beliefs that are separate and different from those of your parents. Got it?

A lot of my students are conservative, a lot are liberal. It really does not matter to me what their beliefs are. Unlike the conservatives of today, I am willing to laud their participation in politics, even if it runs counter to my own beliefs. Please save this column and refer to it during the next election cycle.