Duane,

I am in a very "blue" county within a very "blue" state and work at a very "blue" college. There is practically no "left" here. I do not know when the last time you set foot on a "liberal" campus, but I see systematic take over of all the various schools here by money-oriented beaurocrats who will censor anything their "upper middle class" alumni objects to and will also put "right wing activists' in positions of power claiming "well this is fair because 30 years ago the left was this or that". Ultimately education is not being undermined by "left" or "right" but by corporations with hidden adgendas to make sure that their advertisement (usually sponsoring sporting events) is not associated with a institution that might be doing socially uncomfortable material. We have seen the systematic destruction of educated dialogue for silent compliance. My college was one of the more "radical" and out spoken campuses in the USA and yet when you walk its campus especially during a political campaign season their is practically dead air. Most students today are far more concerned about whether they will make enough money for tuition or have those two part time jobs to pay the cell phone bill. Think about the average 18 to 22 year old out there with their gameboys, Reality TV crap, high fruitose suger, consumerism, instant gratification, disatification with anything not in fashion, piss-water that passes as beer, junk food and all the other artificalalities of modern America. We have managed within our over stimulated society to create a several ADD generations. I do not see the huge protests over the ousting of a clandestine agent by Karl Rove nor do I hear protests over cuts in social services, finacial aid, veterans benifits and all the undermining of the social institutions that are part of the "social contract" that our foreparents believed in during the Enlightenment.