Quote:I'm a pretty country guy, grew up that way and you're right in the county right wing politics rules the day. I went back to college a couple years ago, working full time and finishing my BAS in Business. In my college classes both online and physically going it was left wing politics 80% of the time. I ran into other adult students like myself but the majority of the kids (18-22) where overwhelmingly liberal. Many of the professors where openly liberal as well, some of them even hostile towards non-liberal politics.

 

In my experience the college's are ruled by liberal professors, which leads to liberal students. I don't think it has anything do with the education but more the culture of college today.  

 

I disagree that liberal professors lead to liberal students. 


When I went to college, I only had maybe... one liberal professor.  And I disliked his teaching.  He talked about sex way too much, and it was awkward because he was old.  Now I didn't dislike him as a person -- he was a nice guy.  He certainly went out of his way to help students who couldn't afford their text books.  But I'd say if anything he wasn't a major influence on me at all.


Yet, as I went through college I became more liberal.  I don't think it was because I was becoming more educated.  But it wasn't because of the professors I had either.  (I had a marketing professor who was very much a Reaganite)

 

What actually changed me was how I saw the politicians that we have.  


Back when I was more conservative, I held by the joke:


"A republican and a democrat are walking down the road and encounter a homeless man.  The homeless man asks them for money, so that he can eat.  The Republican pulls out a $50 and hands it to him.  The Democrat, not to be outdone, takes a $100 out of the Republicans pocket, and hands it to the homeless man."


But I began to see the Republicans weren't so compassionate after all.  At least not the politicians. They cared more about big business, and their religious beliefs.  And I began to see that one person's religion should not be the basis for any laws.  Especially the more I learned about laws in the middle east especially regarding women.


As I became more educated, I suppose I realized the two parties aren't so different anymore.  I used to be a big believer in Reagan's nine scariest words in the English language.  But now Republicans are basically Socially Conservative Democrats.  And as I became less socially conservative, the more I realized that they weren't the party for me.


 

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