What has happened to Wesleyan?

mythmom
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:57:24 +0000

There are Democrats in Congress who vote most often with Republicans known as blue dogs.

The Cuban missile crisis gave Dems creds as anti-Communist as well, and the most hated “establishment figure” was Lyndon Johnson who did have a good track record on domestic issues.

I think the marriage of fiscal policies with a conservative social agenda is a difficult marriage at best and the heart of the current difficulties with the Republican party even though it did pick up former Bible Belt Democrats.

The Democrats were helped by the occupy movement which may be completely ineffectual by gave the Democrats a language to whisper about class, something usually verboten in American politics.

Re Wesleyan – neighborhoods, schools get reputations and like-minded folks tend to flock together. (It is also true that some folks are ghettoized, but I think that’s a different conversation.)

Since Wesleyan has a low admit rate, great education, and impressive alums enhancing the schools reputation, I doubt think the school has worries.

As for a fuller dialogue, we are having real difficulty discussing our areas of difference throughout the society and most discourse is rather polarized.

We all seem to hold our own truths as self-evident.

If Wesleyan can manage it, bravo! And most of the Northeast schools have similar biases, though maybe not so forcefully expressed as Wes’s sometimes is.

I think this discussion has really been interesting, but since it is having less relevance to Wesleyan perhaps this is not the place to continue it.

Hm. I don’t think I’ve ever had a martini. But then again, to the shock and awe of the students in the colleges classes I teach, I’ve never finished a beer either. However, I would never say no to champagne.