I have never been able to understand or rationalize why a segment of this nation gets all wired over a made-up and false argument about “Merry Christmas”. To hear some on the right talk it would seem that Christmas is about to be revoked.
To which the corporate world responds, “Over our dead bodies!” After all, there is just too much money to be made with merchandising for anyone to dismiss such a lucrative holiday.
There is also a great deal of partisan campaigning about this ginned up issue. Republicans use it on the hunt for votes from people who are not your first-rate thinkers in the nation. Such as the case today when Donald Trump dropped the ‘war on Christmas’ into a campaign stop when visiting the intelligence vacuum better known as Liberty University.
“I’ll give you an example. You go into a department store now, right,” he said. “When was the last time you saw ‘Merry Christmas?’ You don’t see it any more. They want to be politically correct. If I’m president, you’re going to see ‘Merry Christmas’ in department stores, believe me, believe me. You’re going to see it.”
It remains a mystery how Donald Trump will weave his conservative social agenda that he now wants all to think he holds deeply with a Republican foundation of limiting government’s reach into the workings of private industry.
The deep thinkers all sitting like robots at Liberty today have no idea how ridiculous they looked playing their part in the Trump campaign. Meanwhile the rest of us are not sure whether we laugh at them or Trump who struggled with “Two Corinthians”.
Let us pray.
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SO when a student goes to a Christian College they are non thinking robots, but those who attend liberal indoctrination camps like UW Madison are free thinkers. I understand the idea of your post was mostly to go after Trump and the phony war on Christmas, the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, but to take a cheap shot at a college and the students who attend there just weakens the message. Leave out the CNN commentary and your message will be a lot stronger.
I was thinking about UW-Madison and the type of students who attend when posting about the ones who attend at Liberty. There is a huge difference as at Liberty it is mandated that the students attend such speeches and be used as props for the person at the podium. So from that perspective if your are 18 years of age or older and allow yourself to be used in that fashion for someone like Trump that leads to my conclusions. Plus Liberty University is not a real place for higher learning in the same way that UW-Madison is. To the part of your comment about indoctrination–well–let me assure you that what happens in our places of higher education such as at UW-Madison is allowing for critical thinking to be front and center–which is a direct opposite to your opinion of what takes places. Critical thinking isn’t about affirming ideas in the first place, as you suggest with your comment, but instead allows for a broad range of issues to be held up for questioning and then demanding reason and evidence provide the way forward in how one thinks.
The students of Liberty University are polite. Not the typical university losers looking for a safe space and hoarding micro-insults. The left has been destroying intellectual diversity at public universities like Madison for years. You call them weak minded because they see the world from a different perspective than your own: more hypocritical elitist BS on your part. How disrespectful. You have no idea about their intellectual abilities.
Secondly, Trump is a liberal in terms of social policies–he wants to slaughter babies into the third trimester. Still, I wouldn’t expect well mannered students to jump up and point this out. If you listened to NPR where they interviewed several Liberty students, you could easily see they were not much fooled by Trump.
Should we place the test scores for those entering the UW with those who enter Liberty?
I graduated from UW-Madison (1995) and don’t recall any “liberal indoctrination.” I would have recalled it had it occurred, as an older student and a (classic) conservative. I was a science major but minored in the humanities.