Between the turn of the 20th Century and the end of World War II, America developed the world’s finest University system.
Two World Wars and other global macro phenomena caused the shift of western political and economic power from Great Britain to the United States. The destruction caused by those two world-shattering conflagrations wreaked havoc upon the rest of the world in a manner that was highly impactful in the creation of our great Colleges and Universities. More than any other single factor during that period, America was the nation that attracted the World’s greatest minds. The most salient examples of this attraction were Einstein and many other genius Nuclear Scientists, fleeing Nazi Germany whose only place of refuge on Earth was America. Additionally, America developed a system of mass public primary and secondary education that educated its citizenry at large. This system of public education created the potential to develop America's indigenous highest-level brainpower.
To all participants in the academic universe, the secret sauce of our Academic Institutional Greatness was Academic Freedom. This gave the right for all participants, students and faculty alike, to explore and express ideas openly, honesty, and without regard for their underlying views. The American Academy did not promulgate an official body of acceptable Science, Literate, Art, History, Political Thought, or Political Expression. It does now and enforces these official views with a vengeance.
Forced political and intellectual conformity on College campuses now enforces the academic religion of “political correctness”. Break the rules by expressing a transgressive option and the punishment is swift and severe for students, faculty members, football coaches, or cafeteria employees. In other words, you can’t be trans about being trans.
The American University system of the 21st-century in many ways resembles a communist re-education camp with plush amenities and better food. There is no Academic Freedom of expression for those views not sanctioned by the University thought police. Our Universities regularly convey hostility to America, its institutions, our way of life, and the legitimacy of America's right to exist.
And guess what? You, the American taxpayer, are footing the bill in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
What are you getting for your money?
We still have the world’s greatest Medical and Scientific R&D University infrastructure. We should still keep the money flowing for those purposes provided that we protect our investment from being stolen by the Chinese through their “partnerships” with our Universities. The funding of all "Humanities" programs should be put under the strict scrutiny of an electron microscope before the taxpayer spends a dime. We should de-fund all programs where there is anything but complete transparency, freedom of thought, and expression for all, without penalty of sanction for any viewpoint expressed by any student or faculty member.
The American taxpayer should no longer tolerate or fund a University System that mindfully, with full intent, is actively engaged in the complete destruction of The American Way.
Always remember, the North Star of the Left is Communism and Academia is their Starship Enterprise. We, the American Taxpayer, are mindlessly contributing our tax dollars to the Trojan Horse of destructive Academia. As freedom-loving Americans, we are buying our Universities the rope that they are hanging us with.
Ok, so when we de-fund the Universities, who gets all of that money?
Obviously, WE RE-FUND THE POLICE.
-Emes
Love it. We’re starting to put our public education system under the microscope with the aid of the materials provided by Christopher Rufo and other parent activists. Next up-university education!!