Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!
Good grief that was jolly interesting (I've bookmarked the siteThis article makes an attempt to address it:Britishness and anti-intellectualism
Maybe partly because we English got our revolution out of the way early and have been suspicious of radicalism ever since.
). Boris Johnson is (a) Burke.
That's a good assessment. It seems some of them are going farther and farther right to make right wing policies have that "new car smell" and "new and improved" to keep the base motivated. But I suspect this extremism and lack of cooperation is going to backfire as these polices create less freedom and more oppression. These polices are aimed at fewer and fewer people, and even with election restrictions there will certainly be a distaste for the effects of these laws and policies.
Here is a partial list of those that are probably OK with the right.
Yup, they're selling selfishness as a virtue by calling it freedom. (Freedom from having to give a damn about anyone but 'me and mine'.) This isn't the ideology of the common man, it's the ideology of the wealthy elites: of those who have much and don't want to share any. So is the whole 'our willful ignorance is actually homey wisdom' schtick that the right is always touting and implying, and using to discredit higher education. The rich don't want the common rabble getting educated beyond the level of job training. Educated employees want more money, or they'll go out and start their own businesses, and become the competition. Or worse yet, they'll start asking ethical questions about who's running this show and what their agenda is. And why life is so difficult for so many in the wealthiest nation on Earth. Next thing you know they'll start to unionize the common rabble against the wealthy elites, God forbid!!!
And I saw a poll about a year ago that had about 40% of people who say they are Pubs have more faith in Trump than in the Constitution.Report on growing Republican distrust of higher education.
The majority of Republicans say colleges are bad for America (yes, really)
Is university education an élitist conspiracy by radical, left-leaning liberals intent on indoctrinating our innocent, God-fearing youth with critical thinking, atheism, evolution, socialism &al?
Are experts and "people who know things" a danger to traditional, American values?
Thoughts?
And I saw a poll about a year ago that had about 40% of people who say they are Pubs have more faith in Trump than in the Constitution.
I remember decades ago that a group of college students on an assignment read the Declaration of Independence to some adults, and a high proportion of them rejected it.
You are too polite. He is a berk. About 200 lbs of Prime Berkshire.Good grief that was jolly interesting (I've bookmarked the site
One could try to examine where this perception comes from, what the roots and causes of this alleged phenomenon might be, and what it actually means to be a "leftist" in academia, but sadly nobody seems to be particularly interested in that, seemingly too busy wringing their hands over Marxist Cancel Culture Destroying Freedom and America or whatever is the moral panic du jour in anglophone anti-youth discourse these days.
But it's the Right that sets up think-tanks specifically to promote deregulation and free-trade, and right-wing political organizations. It's the Right that endows university departments and chairs -- with the proviso that they choose the professors.