Those Liberal Intellectuals

IF YOU SPEND MUCH TIME ON campus at major academic institutions, harvard, Princeton, most other college campuses, you notice that a very percentage of the people on campus are liberals. It would be hard to not notice it. According to conservatives, liberals have "taken over" the higher education system like some fungus or weed. Or with some highly complicated, massive conspiracy. The possibility that college campuses are where intelligent educated people gather together is not mentioned. How awful, for conservtives to admit the possibility that well educated intelligent people tend to be liberals. Liberals are by nature critical of the status quo, whatever the status quo happens to be. Liberalism is where resistence to established authority begins. The status quo, according to most people on these college campuses, consists of a small percentage, one percent, of the population, and its control of the corporate and financial system. A pyramid of wealth, power, and authority, with the elite few conservatives on top. It may be that the more successful a person, the more likely to be conservative, to support the status quo. So these intellectual liberals want to change everything. They tend to be opposed to unfettered capitalism, and opposed to any popular religious or philosophical monopoly. Freedom of thought! Anytime protests break out in the streets of America, which is surprisingly often, intellectuals intermingle with the unwashed hippies, or the angry tatooed workers and gang members. Most of these protests and riots are miniature wars of the poor against the rich, the revolutionaires versus the establishment. If hard economic times keep spreading into the middle class from the working class, the uprisings may get bigger.