last week on jeff rense's radio show there was a one-hour frank discussion aboot the left-wing militant bias emerging in america's post-secondary institutions, and how many students are told straight away that everything they've been taught to this point is WRONG and everyone has lied to them.
one example of a boil-over from this attitude, take with a grain of salt considering the source:
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?C...8#Post293300308
to me this is simply college culture, as polite society drifts towards extreme tendrils of the right (christian crusade, god's destiny for america, etc.) a natural reaction of this from the counterculture is an extreme viewpoint from the opposite end of the spectrum.
look at what happened during the vietnam war, protest at colleges and universities resulted in riot police and shootings. more extreme times in some ways, i know, but in some other ways those were less extreme times - the whole homeland security, loyalty on the home front issue.
i do wonder if america is hurtling towards a political polarization, sometimes with extreme opinions from left and right being uttered by pillars of community such as professors and mayors etc. it seems something is happening.
take how many people in the excited states rely on michael moore and rush limbaugh for factual accounts of events, for example...