Quote: Jim Jackson said: If someone points out real stats that show I'm wrong, I'll gladly apologize. I meant no offense by it. But if you extend the idea that Universities are Liberal bastions, then it only makes sense to assert that most educated people are Liberal.
Universities are full of educated people. It's kind of a prerequisite for getting a job. And Universities are Liberal bastions.
Every once in a while you will get some enlightened genius who suggests that the reason that this huge disparity between conservatives and liberals [on campus] exists because liberals are inherently smarter than conservatives.
Conservatives, this Einstein might say, are dummies. This argument is only useful in boosting the confidence and the ego of the dummy that promulgates it. Other than that, you can pretty much toss it in the trash. (Most students can attest while we have some phenomenally brilliant liberal faculty on campus, we also have some that aren't so impressive.)
There are plenty of conservative intellectuals in think tanks who would be easily qualified for a teaching post at America's top colleges. In fact, these think tanks produce much of the most original and practical ideas to America's problems. There is little doubt that many of these think tank intellectuals would add tremendously to the intellectual life of any campus.
