It SHOULD be true, all of it.
I wish it were true, any of it.
And it may be true, somewhere.
I do not think it is the usual case, though.
Whole "Universities," nevermind colleges, are being privatized wholesale. Entire departments have been effectively bought by corporate interests. The Koch brothers, for instance, own and control vast swaths of George Mason University and that VA school that gave us GOPhux Rep. Brat, Randolph-Mason College, among others.
So-called STEM ("Science, Technology, Engineering & Math") training has replaced whatever spirit of "free inquiry" there used to have been. Schools are freely discussing dropping and/or severely curtailing their "liberal arts" curricula.
It's been almost 20 years since I was in a classroom and so it all may have changed, in the interim; but I would have to say that the preponderance of undergrads I taught were mostly interested in 1) NOT having their comfortable mis/preconceptions disturbed 2) on their way to a comfortable billet in the middle class.
"Those student loans won't pay themselves back."
There just seems to be an air of greater desperation, now, as the opportunities shrink and the costs grow.
The Congress is our only "hope,
But the (GOPhascist) Congress won't act.
Why would it? Why would ANYONE expect them to do so? EVERYTHING is going their way!
Lord Dampnut gives them cover while they enact every CorpoRat wet-dream of the past 85 years; or should I say, "while they repeal or reverse every social advance since the 1890s..."
They can DO ANYTHING, and they are!
It's the "See Ya"agenda:
>Health care? See ya.
>Industrial regulation? See ya.
>Climate change mitigation efforts? See ya.
>Renewable fuels/solar-wind power? See ya.
>Financial regulation? See ya.
>Reproductive choice? See ya.
>Worker Safety regulation? See ya.
>Immigration reform? See ya.
>Minority civil rights? See ya.
>Freedom of speech? See ya.
>Consumer protection? See ya.
>Black/brown lives matter? See ya.
>Public schools? See ya.
>Social safety net? See ya.
>Freedom FROM religion? See ya.
>Infrastructure maintenance? See ya.
>Passenger rail? See ya.
>Actual conservation? See ya.
>Worker safety? See ya.
>Unsafe product regulation? See ya...
And that's just off the top of my head, the low-hanging fruit, as it were.
Please feel free to add your own favorite to the list.
They're ALL 'dead letters'...
