Unreal

You know, I've never had all that much respect for the Left in this country. Ideologues of all stripes always struck me as rather mindless and, frankly, simple. However, I didn't imagine how close to Fascism they would really be willing to go into order to squelch political opposition.

Take Bucknell University, which has been engaged in an ongoing battle to keep Conservative student organizations for doing much of anything political. (See here and here.)

Of course, it is all a symptom of the Left's intellectual collapse. They have adopted "theories" ranging from Marxist nonsense (variations of Gramsci's shallow Hegemony Theory) to "post-modern" nonsense (akin to Derrida's Deconstruction lunacies) and everything in-between, in order to arrive at the point where all they can do is put there hands over their ears and yell, "LA LA LA LA I"M NOT LISTENING TO YOU!! LA LA LA LA!!!"

Of course, since they are also the ones in the positions of power at America's colleges and universities they haven't passed up the opportunities to attempt to punish those they disagree with politically. Power corrupts. Power in the hands of stupid people corrupts in a stupid fashion.

The sad fact is these people are unable to make a real intellectual argument anymore. They will only engage in "arguments" where the first axiom is "If you disagree with me you are evil." They may as well be the medieval Catholic Church.