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Old 05-29-2017, 02:00 PM
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I believe this to be true.

I do not believe it to be something new at all, certainly as some on here would try to make it "Trump related". Those of you who were fortunate enough to attend college can certainly relate.

I attended college later in life, after service time, and was a bit older, thus I could clearly see a difference. It is simply a fact that universities are more liberal.

I do think however, that the divide between liberal and conservatives is wider. Both sides have moved to the extremes, thus that liberal attitude early in college life will be more pronounced.

University life helped me a lot, as I had a lot of questions after my military experiences, and while each answer I got was not easily accepted, I did learn how to search for truth and to honor truth.

If a professor lied to me, that was it. If he/she even colored the truth, I was very upset. I am not speaking of opinions...opinions normally generated more discussion and I honored that.
If you get a chance to listen to the youtube video, he starts out by praising the virtues of a liberal education and then explaining what it really means (much like what you expressed in your response in bold above), which is very different from the liberalism of politics today.

I totally agree with you about the extremes in both parties. I really like his ideas in how to deal with it though, not by intolerance, but by asking questions, listening, and expecting to learn something from that exchange. We at least owe that much to one another.