Mattyfisk wrote on Jan 15
th, 2020 at 2:07pm:
aquascoot wrote on Jan 15
th, 2020 at 1:37pm:
educate yourself karmal
The people who shape the minds of America’s students have long leaned left, on average. But students who entered college before 1990 could count on the fact that their professors did not all vote the same way or hold the same views on the controversial issues of the day. Students who arrived after 2005 could make no such assumption. For example, Figure 3 is from Jon Haidt’s recent post plotting new data on the policy views of social psychologists, on nine culture war issues (such as abortion and gay marriage).
Figure 3: Views of 327 social psychologists, on nine culture war issues. For further details see here.
Only one social psychologist, out of a sample of 327, had views that were right of center.
I know, dear. When I was a student, the leader of the Libs was an economics professor who drove a Ferrari. The economics professor Milton Friedman and the Chicago School were the bee's knees. Even Clinton was a fan. Even Paul Keating.
Those were the good old days, no?
Mind you, those professors were quite strict on referencing. They'd fail you if you provided a graph sourced only as "figure 3".
Maybe there are some good things about having slack leftard professors, eh?
They don't ask any pesky questions like who wrote your research?
Meh.
Why would I cast pearls before swine.
You are ideologically possessed , as are many intellectuals of the left.
But here's the consequence.
Your ideological possession lead to identity politics.
Identity politics lead to tribalism
" paying attention" to the marriage of tribalism and the algorhythms of social media led trump to decide 2016 was the time to strike.
And the pragmatists ( who have the only correct view of the truth) would say that trump won and the lefties lost and therefore trump is " truth" and the lefties are " not truth"
You fell off the path, became wilfully blind, corrupted your morals and the people decided they did not want to play your game anymore.
And if the lefties want to be popular kids on the playground, they are going to have to play a game other people want to play.
We will see later this year if people want to play the leftie game.
At the moment, they seem to like playing the awesome game of Donald.
Far more engaging and entertaining