On Missing the Obvious

Over this last weekend a bunch of important talking heads descended upon the quaint and conservative college campus here in Claremont, California. I say the quaint and conservative campus because it's the only one here at the 5-C's, which includes Pomona, Pitzer, Scripps, Harvery Mudd, and Claremont Mckenna, this last being the college I refer to.

The fact that Claremont Mckenna College (CMC) is (perceived to be) conservative is a little surprising for two reasons: 1) Most colleges aren't and 2) Everyone knows that most colleges aren't.

Now before you chalk my rhetoric up to clever hyperbole, if indeed it can even be considered clever, reflect seriously on the two points above for just a minute. I need to site no statistics, books, or specialists; nor do I have to appeal to personal experience, either yours or mine; and I really don't have to argue the point with anyone: College curricula, world-view, and life-style is predominantly liberal, period.

And now back to the talking heads. Half Blues and half Reds, which rather nicely sums up many things, these specialists came to share their thougts concerning the future of America's parties, that is, the future of the Democratic and the Republican party. This means, of course, that the conference was a polite way to envision what political party would usher in the dark age of the apocalypse in the waning years to come?

Well, I think that I already answered that question.