Ron G, it depends on the university. In 1950 Stanford University was all Republican! It was the choice of students who had perfect grades in school and money. It was also expensive and catered to the many private schools all over the State. In the last 20 years it has become increasingly Liberal and makes Berkeley look Conservative. It simply follows the trend of political points of view that is picked up by television, the music industry and movies.
I attended a Private Girls school with the daughters of the Hollywood Studio Owners, stars and crew. It was the most Republican group I ever encountered. In the mid 60's I attended some Goldwater Campaign fund raisers at Duke Wayne's home and that same Hollywood group was attending and fully behind the limited government of Goldwater.
Now that the studios are under the ownenership of Foreign corporations, everything points to the left. Never in the history of America has our voting public been so influenced by the entertainment world.
Mix that up with the lack of information on the founding of our Constitution offered in our schools and you have a natural progression into collectivism.
This should not be a shock as many writers have warned of this for many years. But the American people would rather watch television than read the old classics of warnings. The voters are their own worst enemies and they are not prepared to vote unless they understand the power behind their votes.
I remember back in the late 50s when I attended some of the Birch meetings that started out examining the founder's messages and ended up being bigotted, racist, anti-semitic and homophobic which of course is the basis for the new Republicans under Bush/Clinton/Bush.
The trend used to go from left to right and back again but today the right went too far and wants to force Jesus Christ on all Americans. I seriously doubt the party will ever regain the trust of the American people until they get off this kick of using terrorism of hell and damnation over the voters.
It is the biggest problem with my working for Ron Paul. I have been aware of all that R.S. has written about as I have read the books put out by the von Mises Institute, thanks to Lew Rockwell's guidance. I also see the opposition to this movement due to the Liberal training so many of the American People have been subjected to.
I would not have sent my own kids to Berkeley (couldn't afford Stanford) had I not had them for 17 years prior to their higher education. We studied the Constitution around our dinner table, just as I had learned about it from my grandfather. No school ever came close to the original intent of our founders in California.
America is a collectivist nation and there is no way we can even try to discuss our interpretation of freedoms. We are too late. There might be a way of oozing back into the original intent but people are more interesting in handing the government the problems of our inadequate education and financial system.
If we are destroyed by either our enemies or mother nature, I can only hope we leave behind some clues to where we went wrong. I'm a History Channel buff and see how the scientists search the ruins of dead civilizations for why they died.
My world is dying as the government takes over our lives directing our schools, diets, habits and even our choices. Big Daddy has been elected to run our lives and Big Daddy always wins. It is the first time there is no political fix. The two parties are jockeying for position to take us down. We only have to look at Europe to see the results of collectivism in action.
