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@jeffowski Uh, no. Money is speech, now, and that's academia's articulation of its right-leaning. It's just the actual words and ideas that appear left-leaning.

I'd argue too much of academia still leans way too far right, that it's more about proving monetary value and balancing budgets than it is about maximizing more people's talents.

@janisf -- The point of Universities is to indoctrinate the middle management not to rebel against the bosses.

@jeffowski If that were the case, then academia wouldn't be leaning left, then, would it.

I have to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure academia knows what it's doing. It follows that business doesn't really know what it's doing, either.

Welcome to the great experiment?

What I find dismaying is that so many brilliant, achieving students are turning to MBA's entirely so they can pay off student loans. There's no latitude to build a dream. Making ends meet is IT.

@janisf -- Let me set the scene for you first.
The idea that some Americans are considered "Liberal" and that the Democrats are "Liberal" is factually FALSE. They are MAINSTREAM moderates. They seem Left because the Republican Party is fucking insane and outright fascist.
The Democratic party is the party of the STATUS QUO.
Universities are all about maintaining that same status quo.
Take this into account and then re-read the stuff you wrote with that lens.

@jeffowski I'll give it to you, though, that Democrats are at this moment a centrist party in pursuit of stability. Whether that's good or bad depends on what news you read this morning.

@janisf -- For the past four years, I've been saying, "We have Biden because of Trump."
We have the Democratic Party we have because of the Republican Party.
If the Republican Party actually had any real ideas and put forth an actual policy plan, they would be better and provide better candidates.
This in turn, will force the Democrats to be better too.
Can you only imagine?

@jeffowski We don't just have Biden. We had an Obama who issued a huge business bail-out. We had philandering Bill Clinton, and his wife who could find no way to any ticket unless she married into it.

You're right, the reason Democrats are centrist is because the people who've been politically involved in influential circles are sons of well-moneyed, churchgoing mothers, including the press.

The US leans hard to the Right, by design of a market-savvy Right.

@jeffowski Actual choir member, here. Full-regalia Episcopal gay wedding 1999. I get it, but I'm not sure most voter-consumers do. Our politics relflects our political participation. I have more than had it with arm-folding, pouting communists.