"If there are so many good kids with great critical thinking skills on campuses and among the liberals, then they would be plainly visible somewhere else besides"
Not sure this follows.
First, it doesn't seem like an issue that is getting broad coverage that is reaching into students' lives. My son is on a campus with 50K students and hasn…
"If there are so many good kids with great critical thinking skills on campuses and among the liberals, then they would be plainly visible somewhere else besides"
Not sure this follows.
First, it doesn't seem like an issue that is getting broad coverage that is reaching into students' lives. My son is on a campus with 50K students and hasn't heard about or run across any pro-terrorist rallies. They might be there, but even if he was so inclined, there isn't an - anti-terrorist, both sides have blame and a point - organization to join and rally around.
Second, it is by no means a given that leftist students being assinine is a major threat to Democrats or democracy. Conceivable, sure, but great critical thinking skills can come to a different conclusion, and certainly can conclude that spending time and energy rallying on campus against such things isn't worth the effort and potential cost.
I think a major difference between the left and the right when it comes to the fringe capturing the party is that for the right, a big chunk of their base was already primed and ready for the dog whistles to become louder, and for an embrace of nativism. I don't see that on the left (in reverse). The broader left isn't going to embrace Hamas or champion Venezuelan economics.
I see what you're saying, and I respectfully disagree precisely because of my experience with conservatives, who I also believed were extremely unlikely to embrace isolationism and Russia-humping and a thrice-married rapist who holds Bibles upside down, and yet here we are. I think you are likely a thinking person, and so you assume that other people who stand with you on your side of the aisle are there because they are thinkers, too. Many conservatives who had principles believed that those among them, on their side of the aisle, were there because of their principles, and so dismissed the fringe until it was a tidal wave.
It is truly not every day that I am called naive! With the preamble that you make good points and I'm not here to poke at you with this tidbit: everyone who knows me and therefore typically refers to me as a tyrannical skeptic-bitch found this comment immensely fun.
"If there are so many good kids with great critical thinking skills on campuses and among the liberals, then they would be plainly visible somewhere else besides"
Not sure this follows.
First, it doesn't seem like an issue that is getting broad coverage that is reaching into students' lives. My son is on a campus with 50K students and hasn't heard about or run across any pro-terrorist rallies. They might be there, but even if he was so inclined, there isn't an - anti-terrorist, both sides have blame and a point - organization to join and rally around.
Second, it is by no means a given that leftist students being assinine is a major threat to Democrats or democracy. Conceivable, sure, but great critical thinking skills can come to a different conclusion, and certainly can conclude that spending time and energy rallying on campus against such things isn't worth the effort and potential cost.
I think a major difference between the left and the right when it comes to the fringe capturing the party is that for the right, a big chunk of their base was already primed and ready for the dog whistles to become louder, and for an embrace of nativism. I don't see that on the left (in reverse). The broader left isn't going to embrace Hamas or champion Venezuelan economics.
I see what you're saying, and I respectfully disagree precisely because of my experience with conservatives, who I also believed were extremely unlikely to embrace isolationism and Russia-humping and a thrice-married rapist who holds Bibles upside down, and yet here we are. I think you are likely a thinking person, and so you assume that other people who stand with you on your side of the aisle are there because they are thinkers, too. Many conservatives who had principles believed that those among them, on their side of the aisle, were there because of their principles, and so dismissed the fringe until it was a tidal wave.
It is truly not every day that I am called naive! With the preamble that you make good points and I'm not here to poke at you with this tidbit: everyone who knows me and therefore typically refers to me as a tyrannical skeptic-bitch found this comment immensely fun.