people at my school are fanatics

[Schadenfroh]

as you know, im in mississippi and 80% of my school are hard core republicans. I consider myself a moderate, but i will join the democratic party when i am old enough to vote. The problem is at my school, EVERYONE is so narrowminded. If the discussion of politcial parties comes up, they immediatly bash the democratic party. The vast majority could argue with a brick wall but have no clue what they are talking about. The first thing they say when they find out that you are a democrat is, SO YOU SUPPORT ABORTION???!!! BABY MURDERER!!!!!!, then you are screwed because they will hate you for years. it took me 2 years to get over the last time i mentioned my sympathy for the democratic party, since then i have always said i was a moderate. I honostly dont give a crap about if abortions are legal or not. But these people seem to choose their party based soley on one issue, if you ask them about welfare they dont have an opinion unless you tell them that republicans support it, then they are for it (yes, i have pulled that off before) . Gosh, i hope that once i get to college i will find people that are less narrowminded when it comes to politics. How can people be so devoted to one issue that they blot out all the other agendas of a party?

 

[Orsorum]

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lol

College? Open-minded? Yeah, right. There's no more of a place for actual reasoned, factual debate on a university campus than there is in ATPN or at the D/RNC.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

Most colleges are full of hardcore liberals and if you are a republican you will be just as ostracised as you are now and not get any girls.=X

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
Most colleges are full of hardcore liberals and if you are a republican you will be just as ostracised as you are now and not get any girls.=X

Sadly, true, but I do know many, many right-wingers (at least at my school) who are just as abusive of liberals. Once again, it's hard to be centered in the middle.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
Most colleges are full of hardcore liberals and if you are a republican you will be just as ostracised as you are now and not get any girls.=X

thats right, b!tch!

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
Most colleges are full of hardcore liberals and if you are a republican you will be just as ostracised as you are now and not get any girls.=X

thats right, b!tch!

huh?

 

[Forsythe]

Generally, this is actually true, in Denmark/Europe anyway, the higher your education is, the more liable you are to support, what you americans would call, "the liberal cause"!

Strange huh?

 

[PingSpike]

Most of the kids my college were just retarded. They didn't have political views, they had drinking problems.

I had one class, and there were a lot of moderates in there. At least, anyone who knew what they were talking about seemed to be moderate, possibly conservative.

 

[EXman]

Originally posted by: Forsythe
Generally, this is actually true, in Denmark/Europe anyway, the higher your education is, the more liable you are to support, what you americans would call, "the liberal cause"!

Strange huh?

no it isn't the more education you get the more arrogant and you get you have not noticed all the smarty pants on campus.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: EXman

Originally posted by: Forsythe
Generally, this is actually true, in Denmark/Europe anyway, the higher your education is, the more liable you are to support, what you americans would call, "the liberal cause"!

Strange huh?

no it isn't the more education you get the more arrogant and you get you have not noticed all the smarty pants on campus.

I still can't figure out what that ball of sentence fragments is trying to convey and I've read it like 5 times. Maybe you should get some more education from the smarty pants on campus.

 

[kage69]

It's called The Bible Belt, get used to it. Or, like I did, get the hell out. Let those wacko fundies live in their own demented haze.

 

[Forsythe]

EXman; Stop acting stupid (i said acting!), and rephrase that sentence, i ain't getting it totally. That's generalizing on a level unheard of, you sound like a person without any education at all, being mad at the ppl that are smart and have an education.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: EXman

Originally posted by: Forsythe
Generally, this is actually true, in Denmark/Europe anyway, the higher your education is, the more liable you are to support, what you americans would call, "the liberal cause"!

Strange huh?

no it isn't the more education you get the more arrogant and you get you have not noticed all the smarty pants on campus.

That was way above my grade level. What did it mean?

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Schadenfroh, you live in one of the most ignorant backwaters the US affords. People there are profoundly sensitive about their cultural retardation and take it out on anyone who shows any sign that they are willing to let go of the vine.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: EXman

Originally posted by: Forsythe
Generally, this is actually true, in Denmark/Europe anyway, the higher your education is, the more liable you are to support, what you americans would call, "the liberal cause"!

Strange huh?

no it isn't the more education you get the more arrogant and you get you have not noticed all the smarty pants on campus.

wtf?

My brain hurts trying to read that sentence.

 

[Genx87]

Wow there is a place in America where the liberals havent been trying to brainwash kids from kindergarten?

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: Genx87
Wow there is a place in America where the liberals havent been trying to brainwash kids from kindergarten?

Not at all. Mississippi is the home of the Christian, liberal wing of the Taliban.

 

[Bitek]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
Most colleges are full of hardcore liberals and if you are a republican you will be just as ostracised as you are now and not get any girls.=X

So does that imply conservs are ignorant, uneducated and not smart enough to get into college? Hmm, I also read a recent survey that found support for the Iraqi war tended to be inversely proportional to educational level. (For the conservs: Dumbness, Up = Like Iraqi War, Up.) This is also consisant with conservs electing the mentally-challenged GWB and the bubbling dottard Reagan, while Liberals vote for genius Rhodes schollars like Clinton. Hence why Clinton tapped so much ass, while the last 3 repub presidents just married Ice Queens. Hmm, everything is coming together....





[/sarcasm]

Seriously tho, the vocal hard-left at colleges is prob more a function of youth; as they can more easily hold onto idealism without having to confront the cold-hard pragmatism needed in real life.

 

[Forsythe]

That just wasn't funny...

 

[Bitek]

Originally posted by: Genx87
Wow there is a place in America where the liberals havent been trying to brainwash kids from kindergarten?

Yes, those states where the Right-wingers have done a better job.

 

[Moonbeam]

"as they can more easily hold onto idealism without having to confront the cold-hard pragmatism needed in real life."

You mean they have not yet died as humans and become competitive swine at the trough we have made of paradise.

 

[Bitek]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
"as they can more easily hold onto idealism without having to confront the cold-hard pragmatism needed in real life."

You mean they have not yet died as humans and become competitive swine at the trough we have made of paradise.

Well that's one way to interpret it. I really was really trying to speak about idealism on both sides (usually the extremes.) Often times there is no perfect answer to a situation and the decision we have to make has both positive and negative consequences. I do not believe in absolute good or evil, although we strive for that unattainable goal.

As a real world issue that is common with campus liberals is the issue of "sweatshop labor." Chiefly, textile work that has been send to impoverished countries were the workers are paid minimal amounts for thier labor. This is usually damned by the campus liberals, and demands are put to require local gov'ts to increase minimum wages in order to more fairly compensate the workers and combat corp. greed. While well intended, the net effect is that companies just move the work to another country that will agree to lesser standards, sparking a race to the bottom.

While seemingly depolorable, the hard work that is offered does have huge advanges to those that do them. It brings in real capital into the area that can build the economy, especially since the only real alternative is farm labor, which provides substinance, but does not generate capital so the local economy cannot ever grow. Also, the wages offered, while meager, are still typically higher than what is earned in these other labors. Ideally the capital brought into the country can transform it and eventually grow into more "valuable" industries. Are the workers being exploited? Yes, but are they better off being denied the opportunity? I say no, altho those youth protesting the WTO may not see it this way.

AKA, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."



Sorry about the hijack, but the OP seemed more of a rant anyway.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Hafen

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
"as they can more easily hold onto idealism without having to confront the cold-hard pragmatism needed in real life."

You mean they have not yet died as humans and become competitive swine at the trough we have made of paradise.

Well that's one way to interpret it. I really was really trying to speak about idealism on both sides (usually the extremes.) Often times there is no perfect answer to a situation and the decision we have to make has both positive and negative consequences. I do not believe in absolute good or evil, although we strive for that unattainable goal.

As a real world issue that is common with campus liberals is the issue of "sweatshop labor." Chiefly, textile work that has been send to impoverished countries were the workers are paid minimal amounts for thier labor. This is usually damned by the campus liberals, and demands are put to require local gov'ts to increase minimum wages in order to more fairly compensate the workers and combat corp. greed. While well intended, the net effect is that companies just move the work to another country that will agree to lesser standards, sparking a race to the bottom.

While seemingly depolorable, the hard work that is offered does have huge advanges to those that do them. It brings in real capital into the area that can build the economy, especially since the only real alternative is farm labor, which provides substinance, but does not generate capital so the local economy cannot ever grow. Also, the wages offered, while meager, are still typically higher than what is earned in these other labors. Ideally the capital brought into the country can transform it and eventually grow into more "valuable" industries. Are the workers being exploited? Yes, but are they better off being denied the opportunity? I say no, altho those youth protesting the WTO may not see it this way.

AKA, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."



Sorry about the hijack, but the OP seemed more of a rant anyway.

While this is off topic, I see the point you are trying to make. Europe and the United States went through similar revolutions where workers were exploited before coming to the state we are in now. These countries are just coming late to the table...and it seems that this ugly transition period may or may not be a reality of what must happen to become a modernized country. I'm not condoning the exploitation of the workers...merely making an observation.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam

Originally posted by: Genx87
Wow there is a place in America where the liberals havent been trying to brainwash kids from kindergarten?

Not at all. Mississippi is the home of the Christian, liberal wing of the Taliban.

ROFLMAO