Claremont McKenna vs Pomona

enkephalon
Mon, 18 May 2009 13:07:35 +0000

Plainsman:

" If America is not center-left, how could the country have elected a center-left POTUS and a center-left VPOTUS and a center-left Congress?"

Do a little research, and you’ll find that Republicans have controlled the House, Senate and Presidency for a much longer period than the Democrats over the last 30 years. Not all at the same time necessarily, but looking at the most obvious benchmark, I think 20 years of Republican presidents in the last 28 years argues forcefully against simply basing your estimate of the country’s political leanings on the last election.

Obama was elected thanks to a perfect storm of events. First “black” candidate with a chance to win, 8-yr Bush incumbency, national war fatigue, the natural cycle of election swings, a complacent and biased media, and finally a weighty financial crisis in the last months before the election. And he’s far from being “center-left”, by the way…he’s the most extreme-left President the country has ever seen – a fact that was carefully hidden from the voting public.

Finally, I agree with “the boneyking” that, independent of the validity of your conjecture, it has little to do with one’s choice of school. In fact, if one were to be contrarian, any student wishing to explore the world of academics and philosophy to the fullest extent would not wish to immerse him or herself in facile and intellectually lazy groupthink.