Editorial | November 10, 2004
Before leftists can finish mourning their election loss, they will first go through denial. It is abundantly clear to most liberals that Republicans swept the House, Senate, gubernatorial, and presidential elections, but the broader implications still haven’t hit home. They have not yet realized that this election seriously challenged both the Left’s role in American politics and its fundamental understanding of the country’s priorities. They still think it was all just a big misunderstanding, the system is broken, the rules weren’t fair, and anyone who voted for a Republican is either ill-informed or just plain stupid. THE PRIMARY SOURCE disagrees.
Kerry lost by several million votes and it was not a result of minority disenfranchisement. Nor can the fundamental system of American democracy be blamed. Nevertheless, the Electoral College has now become the focus of attention for many at Tufts who argue it works against urban socialist parties—because socialism is not what the majority of Americans want. Democracy is really amazing like that.
Denial will eventually give way to some form of bargaining. Democrats can expect either a split in their party or a wholesale restructuring of their movement in the next two years—that is, unless they want to see Republicans with a filibuster-proof majority. Maybe the Left will finally attract Americans when it realizes there is no place for socialism in America, though that is unlikely.
Conservatives tolerated liberal nonsense from peers, professors, and administrators at this University throughout the election season. Now it is time for Tufts to eat a nice big piece of humble pie and apologize to the side that will be governing America for the foreseeable future. Liberals at Tufts like to imagine the members of THE PRIMARY SOURCE> sitting at a roundtable with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, placing bets on which Arab country has more oil, when in reality, much of conservatives’ time at Tufts is instead spent hiding their views from friends, writing things in which they don’t believe in order to spare their grades, or wiping away spit left by dirty leftists who walk by their chalkings. Contrast this with the leftist “underground,” which, despite a majority of Americans opposing its radical agenda, enjoys the acceptance and support of its like-minded professors and peers.
To the intolerant, snobby elitists who have made Tufts unbearable for conservatives: it’s time to end your Marxist, feminist, America-hating, intellectually barren control of academia. Maybe this is a good time for you to move to Montreal, link up with an al-Qaeda cell, and form a support group for Bush haters, but America is going to be very uncomfortable for you as the Bush administration promotes capitalism and restores world order. Just remember, the students on whom you spit, the peers at whom you curse and call names may very well be working in the ranks of government in the near future, making decisions about your life. If there’s any hope for forgiveness, the Tufts community should consider changing its attitude toward the campus Right—the likely leaders of America’s future.
Inviting Hillary Clinton will surely increase Tufts’ profile and call attention to the campus. Her appearance is even more significant for Democrats who must now reflect on their party and reconsider its leadership. Will the power-hungry senator from New York be the new face of the party? The SOURCE doesn’t like the prospect of a Hillary candidacy, but in the words of two-term President George W. Bush: “Bring it on.”
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