My Right-Wing Degree
Listening to: Love My Way - Strawpeople
Salon has a fascinating article on
the Leadership Institute - a rightwing training institute aiming to increase
the presence of conservatism on US campuses. The most interesting comment was:
Chris Stio, an institute staffer who directed the Bush-Cheney field operations
in northeast Michigan, warns his students not to buy into second-term crowing about
America’s irrevocable slide into conservatism. “Enough people were yelling and screaming
about the president that if they’d actually picked up the phone book and started calling,
they might have won,” he says. “They went to concerts, they bashed the president,
but they didn’t work. If enough people had, maybe we’d have a different president.
The election was not inevitable. And too many think it was.”
And you know what… I think that is the most astute observation of the left I have
seen in a while.
