Cirrus
10mo ago
MAGA as a principled opponent to affirmative action and setting the precedent for the left to do the same when they come back into power.
What are you talking about?? Do you honestly expect “the left” to not hit the defect button the instant MAGA-style conservatives are out of power? “Wow, looks like Trump restrained his base from using affirmative action and remaking educational institutions to benefit their side! What a noble precedent—now we will also abandon DEI and uphold Trump’s lofty ideals of meritocratic achievement.”
I am doubtful if the right has the academic manpower to restore political balance to the academic system with merit-based hiring.
Somehow I doubt that too. Also, what does merit mean in academia? A cultural institution so totally dominated by neoliberal progressives that merit can only mean being published in one of their journals, or speaking at one of their conferences, or getting tenure at one of their blue blooded Ivy League schools.
Hey I have an idea: let’s make journalism merit based! We’ll measure merit by how many articles you’ve written for the Epoch Times, or your number of appearances on One America News network!
Cirrus
10mo ago
That would only work if Russell Vought-tier MAGA conservatives had an unbroken hold on the Executive branch for the next 20 years. They won’t. Their policies will be reversed within five seconds of the next Democrat president taking power, or within about six months of a George Bush-tier Republican taking power. Removing funding would require Congressional approval and they won’t get that.
Next best thing is, as 2rafa says, fill the machine with your people. Next best thing is to bloat higher education with new constituencies favorable to your side. That means more funding to ROTC programs, collegiate athletics, and red-tribe-adjacent disciplines like business and engineering.
Cirrus
11mo ago
Agreed. The only thing that will rouse the comfortable Right to civil unrest is if their wallets get light. The stock market, housing market, consumer prices, etc. have hypnotized the Right into a state of indolent satisfaction. Rich white boomers have much more to lose than poor leftists. So the Right will grunt and groan on X for a while until the next news story chugs along.
Cirrus
11mo ago
are there any major, visionary projects happening at the moment that have a plausible chance of success?
You could argue that doubling the population of Africans by 2050 to over 2.5 billion people is a visionary project. Bill Gates’ malaria nets and Mr. Beast’s wells may help add a hundred million more Nigerians and Congolese to the global population. That way they can occupy Seoul, Tokyo, Stockholm, and Minneapolis when the native populations there die out due to unaffordable housing and cultural nihilism. That’s a level of human engineering never before attempted, quite visionary.
Looking at the DNC leadership page, Jason Rae is gay. Stuart Appelbaum and Chuck Schumer are Jews. Only Ken Martin and Chris Korge appear to be straight, white men.
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