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The heart of American Leftism isn't found on the cross streets of Hollyweird Heights and ACORN Place, or hidden away in various SEIU or AFL-CIO Union halls. Those flawed institutions might be considered as elements of the hands and feet. (Oh, the asshole(s) of the Leftist body? well, the media certainly fulfills that role.) No, you need look no further than your own State Institute of Higher Learning, in the halls of mindless academe, to find the throbbing heart.

But, you say, shouldn't you consider that the academics make up the brain? Are they not the best of the best, the ones with intelligence?  No, the brain would be the politicians, and the laws they pass and enforce. Politicians, although elected by voters, are dependent on the heart; the academics prepare the voters to accept the politician's direction without much thought. And, the politicians, the 'brains', give direction to the various peripheral organs, the Unions, the ACORNS, and of course to the assholes. These academic leftists aren't really possessed of the diversity of intelligence necessary to be considered as a functional 'brain'; they simply accept and force a circulating dogma and continue to pump it back into circulation...carried throughout the body in the form of their mostly unquestioning students and graduates.

No, academics represent the heart. In their structured and isolated Ivory Towers, they collectively ignore thought that is considered 'heretical' and force compliance to far-left memes. There is little 'thinking' involved in that process.

Dr. Ron Lipsman pens an excellent essay posted today at American Thinker entitled "Swimming Upstream: The Life of a Conservative Professor in Academia". Well worth your study.

Here's the essence of the Leftist Elements that Dr. Lipsman succinctly points out that these institutions promulgate without questioning...

The overwhelmingly liberal atmosphere on campus is well known. In the one place in society at which there should be diversity of thought, exploration of conflicting ideas and a propensity to challenge conventional wisdom, we have instead a mind-numbing conformity of opinion and a complete unwillingness to entertain any thought or idea that deviates from the accepted truth. That conformity encompasses:

• The legitimacy of virtually any program that promotes the interests of minority and female faculty, staff and students, even if the program is blatantly racist or sexist -- justified by a belief that America's past unjust treatment of blacks, American Indians and Japanese-Americans, and its unfair treatment of women render such discrimination necessary and lawful.
  
  
  
• A multicultural mentality, which preaches that America's Eurocentric, white, Christian heritage is responsible for colonialism, imperialism, racism and sexism, and that its replacement by a culture that "celebrates diversity" will transform the US into a more just and humane society.

• A distrust of free markets and democratic capitalism, and its severe limitation in favor of a centralized, government-controlled economy that will redistribute the wealth of America more fairly.
  
  
  
• A denigration of religious belief and its replacement by the "worship" of secular humanism, with mindless environmentalism occupying a central place in the new religion.
  

Barack Hussein Obama spent a decade in the thrall of these leftists in various academic institutions. Columbia is a hotbed of leftism; Harvard is staunchly insular and even farther left. In Barack Obama they finally found a Voice, an actor that was then sent along to the brain of the beast...into politics. Before entering the political arena, he trained the hands and the feet, as a community organizer; he has the wide-eyed and loving service of the assholes in the media; now he's putting together a complete Leftist package that will usurp the United States of America.

Where are the Conservative voices? We are being rejected, ejected. Slowly but surely the mindset that brought this country it's greatest moments of success is  being moved out of the mainstream. That movement signifies, I believe, the beginning of the end of the Republic.

What does this mean? Well, I believe the Leftism that is our current direction now is a cancer of our collective soul, an abnormality, a degradation. We need a conservative resurgence, a different direction. We won't get that as a product of these academic institutions, if they can help it.

Oh. Sarah Palin is not the product of any of these far-leftist-dominated institutions.

Neither was Ronald Reagan. Just sayin'.

And, send your donations (and your kids) to Hillsdale, or a like-minded institution of higher learning, NOT to a State-run facility. That includes MTSU, where there abides a far-left Professor of Guitar.

Dr. Ron Lipsman's book "Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains".

(Oh, that image courtesy of LIFE; it brings a smile to my stone face.)

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UPDATE:

I just found this, written by a Columbia professor (h/t Antiquitopia)...

By the end of the 1980s—when I was an undergraduate—it had become clear to seemingly everyone in authority that the notion of "Greatness" was a tool of illegitimate power; Adler and Hutchins were racist and sexist in their choices of texts; their valorization of the "Western World" made them complicit with imperialism and worse. "This is more than a set of books, and more than a liberal education," said Hutchins. "Great Books of the Western World is an act of piety. Here are the sources of our being. Here is our heritage. This is the West. This is its meaning for mankind."

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Sets the exit stage left, doesn't it?