Traditional “left” was working-class. That is CLEARLY not the case anymore. This accelerated under obama when the corporations (who had ruined the gop under bush) all ran to support the new left under obama. The new left is wealthy, sub-urban, corporate, and huge numbers of highly paid govt employees (both federal and unionized municipal). They are economically regressive (upward wealth transfer) and hide that under the guise of really really extreme far-“left” social issues like the transgender agenda.
“The reality on most college and university campuses differs greatly from what outsiders think. Administrators and professors are open to diversity of race, sex, and sexual preference and pretty much to everyone under the sun except for straight white males. Intellectual diversity is to them like the cross to a vampire. It is evil, sexist, racist, ci-gendered, and all the rest. All those who favor it are considered fascists, Nazis.”
Give credit where credit is due. The campus lefties are now whining, and they are doing an excellent job of it. Nay, superlative.
What is the complaint? It is that elected state officials, governors, and legislators are sticking their snouts where they do not belong. Namely, they have the audacity to dictate what should and should not be taught at colleges and universities and how they should be run.
Specifically, they have all but banned “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) statements as a requirement for hiring and promotions. When our friends on the left attempted to substitute “belonging” for DEI, the politicians gave the backs of their hands to that subterfuge as well.
Nor should we forget the meddling of the Supreme Court of the United States. Imagine! Those friends have banned Affirmative Action, the bedrock of socialist professors. Nor should we forget about grievance studies: black studies, queer studies, feminist studies, and all the rest. These, too, are under the gun by politicians who must be brought to heel.
Perhaps the leading target of this outrage, in the view of the parlor pinks, is Governor DeSantis of Florida, where “woke goes to die,” thank goodness. Their cri de coeur is that faculty in the Sunshine State are eyeing the exits. Well, bad cess to them in their new faculty posts. They will ruin their new intellectual homes as they have done from whence they are supposedly leaving. Their taunt is that inferior faculty will be hired in their places. And, indeed, there is some truth in that charge, at least in terms of formal credentials. The left has been so overwhelmingly powerful at our institutions of higher learning that they have been hugely successful in precluding from the professoriate—so much for “inclusion” —scholars who are not entirely “woke.”
Of course, intellectuals, other things equal, are far better able to determine what should and should not be taught in class than politicians and judges. But other things are hardly equal. This assumption only applies on the assumption that the scholars are open to all shades of opinion. As John Stuart Mill eloquently said: “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.” If students have never even been acquainted with critiques of Marxism—and all too often they have not been on campus—they have been cheated.
The reality on most college and university campuses differs greatly from what outsiders think. Administrators and professors are open to diversity of race, sex, and sexual preference and pretty much to everyone under the sun except for straight white males. Intellectual diversity is to them like the cross to a vampire. It is evil, sexist, racist, ci-gendered, and all the rest. All those who favor it are considered fascists, Nazis.
As matters stand, the incursion of these “outside forces” is a vast improvement. The now-embittered economic and cultural Marxists started this intellectual war. When they were in the driver’s seat, all was well. They regard this comeuppance they are now suffering from as totally unjustified. It never would have occurred, had they not been so intent and successful in achieving an all but monopoly over what is taught, published, how hiring and promotion are determined, etc.
But now a word of caution for the “interlopers.” It will do little good, say, to forbid the use of Rawls in class and insist on substituting Nozick. Ditto for replacing Marx with Mises or banning Myrdahl so that Hayek may be read instead. Ditto for substituting Sowell for Kendi.
In April, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower outlined his “Domino Theory” in a speech, framing the Cold War as a chain reaction where one communist victory—like in Vietnam—would topple nations around it. This doctrine drove the U.S. into Vietnam’s mire, costing 58,000 lives and untold billions, chasing a phantom threat. Communism spread anyway, yet America endured.
Fighting halfway across the globe didn’t safeguard our freedom—it drained it. The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania rejects this domino delusion. Our liberty isn’t tied to foreign jungles; it’s rooted here. Non-intervention keeps us strong—wars just bleed us weak.
“Europe’s rebound owed more to trade than charity; our largesse just padded foreign budgets while ours rotted.” Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania
On this day, April 3, 1948, President Harry Truman greenlit the Marshall Plan, sending $13 billion to rebuild post-WWII Europe. Touted as a communist stopper, it kicked off a habit of endless foreign aid—trillions since, with billions still flowing yearly. Europe’s rebound owed more to trade than charity; our largesse just padded foreign budgets while ours rotted.
This set a precedent for global handouts we can’t afford. The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania says stop. Our money belongs here—fixing roads, not foreign capitals. Charity’s noble; forced subsidies aren’t.
On this day, April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson stood before Congress and urged a declaration of war against Germany, pulling the United States into World War I. He painted it as a moral imperative, but the U.S. had no vital interest in Europe’s brutal stalemate—submarine threats and alliances didn’t justify the cost. Over 116,000 Americans perished, millions more were wounded, and the nation racked up debt for a war that ended in a harsh treaty, planting seeds for WWII.
This wasn’t our fight; it was an unnecessary plunge into foreign chaos. The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania condemns such interventions. Wars abroad don’t protect liberty—they expand government and squander lives. We thrive by staying out of distant battles, not by joining them.
On this day, March 31st, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the nation about Vietnam, outlining “Steps to Limit the War.” But the bombshell came at the end: “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” LBJ’s war—a grinding, costly slog—had tanked his approval. Over 16,000 Americans were dead by ’68, with billions spent and no victory in sight. The public turned on him, and he knew it.
Time after time, candidates who pledge peace—like LBJ’s rival Eugene McCarthy—gain ground over war hawks.
The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania gets it: peace wins. Foreign adventurism bleeds us dry and sours the people. Prosperity and morality lie in non-intervention—bringing troops home, cutting war budgets, and letting nations sort themselves out. It’s the bold, popular path. Who’s ready to walk it?
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