OPINION:
It wasn’t that long ago that a degree at an American college or university was highly esteemed in the eyes of other countries, where education wasn’t nearly so well-funded and well-rounded as in the United States. It wasn’t that long ago that America’s Ivy League was to be envied; its university systems to be coveted; its institutions of higher learning the place where the education-hungry would go to be fed.
It wasn’t that long ago that a degree from an American college or university meant something.
Nowadays?
Nowadays, they’re cautionary tales for parents to beloved children; they’re more often than not to be avoided at all costs — at least by those who love, cherish and care about their kids.
“Ted Cruz Declines To Answer Whether He’d Give A Blow Job To End World Hunger,” one Daily Caller headline just stated.
“‘You Get No P—-y’: Self-Described ‘Mathematician And Physicist’ Gets Ripped By Ben Shapiro After Lodging Insult,” another Daily Caller headline just stated.
And that’s after Allen West — the former Lt. Col. Allen West, the former Rep. Allen West, the highly educated, highly accomplished, highly esteemed Allen West — that Allen West — that’s after that Allen West was screamed at by scores of leftist loons while he was attempting to speak at the University of Buffalo on a theme of “America Is Not Racist” as part of the Young America Foundation’s lecture series.
“I am unbelievably disturbed that I was chased by a leftist mob,” Therese Purcell said to YAF. “I was aggressively chased by about 200 angry protesters and had to hide in a men’s bathroom from screaming leftists who were searching for me.”
And of the Shapiro event?
There’s video — just as there’s video of the debacle at Buffalo over West — but in brief: A snotty school student stood up and cited his credentials as a “mathematician and physicist” before snottily telling Shapiro that the idea that boys are born boys and that’s the way they stay, no matter what the LGBTQ movement says, is outdated thinking.
“Like, for example,” the student said, “gender identity disorder, that’s a DSM 4 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), bro. We use the DSM 5 now.”
He then went on to tell Shapiro “and you get no p—-y and can’t even make your wife w-t, so what’s good,” as The Daily Caller noted.
This — in front of a live audience of his classmates, and ostensibly, at least a professor or administrator or two.
Cruz shot back at his remarkably clownish inquisitor by saying: “I am curious [about] that young fellow, if it would solve world hunger, would you vote for Donald Trump?”
Those are three stories — same week. Nary a Google search on terms needed.
And the takeaway is this: Colleges in America are where smart kids go to get stupid, and where stupid kids go to get stupider.
“In 2020,” Statista reported, “about 37.5 percent of the U.S. population who were aged 25 and above had graduated from college or another higher education institution. This is a significant increase from 1960, when only 7.7, percent of the U.S. population had graduated from college.”
That’s due in large part to the Democrats’ push for all youth in America to have the opportunity — that is, taxpayer funding — to go to college, regardless of whether or not their grades, their skills and talents, their personal ambitions even deemed them worthy of what should be the key consideration for attendance at any college or university: the learning.
Throw in a little easy lending and government-backed loaning and voila, the floodgates to college for all opened wide. Of course, that meant the experience of college itself became slightly downgraded. What used to be a significant competitive edge — the college degree — became just another notch in an expected life event. And for immature youth making the transition between high school and self-sufficiency, college became the perfect place to hide, party and pretend at life, all the while expecting their parents to pay — all the while naive parents encouraged their student-children to stay.
Four-year degree?
Why go four years when five gives a whole ‘nother 12 months of partying.
“The gender binary is a western colonialist framework of gender,” the self-described “mathematician and physicist” told Shapiro.
Mommy’s little genius.
And guess where all these types of geniuses go after graduation?
The Democratic Party. They become the next generation of Democratic Party voters and leaders.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall,” is available by clicking HERE.
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