Higher Education Indoctrination & Hurricane Season Streaks - Top 3 Takeaways – May 6th, 2024
- A change in indoctrination. I’d imagine that you’re not a terrorist supporter. I’d imagine that you’ve certainly not raised your children to be terrorist supporters. I’d imagine that you’re not an antisemite. I’d imagine that you’ve not raised your kids to be antisemites. For many right-of-center parents politically one of the biggest fears of sending their kids off to college is what might happen politically to them once they get there. Now, within the state of Florida much has been done under the DeSantis administration to reign in the potential threat of political indoctrination (not that it isn’t necessarily still a strong possibility). But the point is that for a long time the biggest fear by parents of possible political indoctrination of their kids has come out of fear of what or how they might be taught. What’s taken place on college campuses across the country in recent weeks, but mostly what we’ve seen over the past week, shines a bright light in a different direction. Kids often raised by radicals, that are radicals, that are now the mainstream of the Democrat Party on campuses. Last week I brought you this: The College Democrats of America, the official affiliation of the Democratic Party on college campuses, officially endorsed the antisemitic protests on college campuses. In a statement led by the Muslim Caucus of the College Democrats challenging their party’s leadership they stated: Each day that Democrats fail to stand united for a permanent cease-fire, two-state solution, and recognition of a Palestinian state, more and more youth find themselves disillusioned with the party. To the students out there protesting we stand with you! So, in this time of choosing, those are who college Democrats are. Those who seek to further legitimize Hamas. Those who stand with terrorists over Israelis. When the Biden administration isn’t left wing enough for you...
- Florida, we’ve got a problem with rank-and-file Democrats on campus. It’s no secret that most kids on college campuses who identify politically as something are Democrats. It’s also nothing new. Historically people have started out further left politically than where they eventually end up, which speaks volumes about what happens to most people as they gain life experience along with fully formed brains (which doesn’t happen until 25). The radically hard shift to the left by the College Democrats carries with it the potential to take a lot of students along with it to a very antisemitic and socialistic place. RealClear Policy (a division of RealClear Politics), has identified that 34% of college students identify as Democrats, while just 11% of students identify as Republicans with the balance not identifying with either party. This doesn’t mean that just over a third of college students are formally members of the College Democrats of America, though many are, but that they’re certainly well positioned to be heavily influenced by them. Much of the focus over the college protests have been what’s happened with outside agitators, which no doubt has played a pivotal role in the lawlessness that’s played out across the country, however, the biggest and longest lasting impact of these protests would appear to be what’s happening on the inside with the largest and most influential political organization on college campuses across the country. A college Democrat today isn’t who a college Democrat used to be.
- Let’s go streaking... No, not that kind but I figured coming off of talking about colleges that might have come to mind. No, I’m talking about hurricane season streaking. As with anything, one or two events doesn’t constitute a trend, however three or more in succession does. To be sure existing hurricane streaks haven’t been good – including Florida having been struck by at least one hurricane for three consecutive years. And as you’re no doubt aware based on all of the preseason forecasts there’s the belief that this year is set to be another rough one. Starting this week we’ll likely hear a lot about it. It’s National Hurricane Preparedness Week and next week it’s the Governor’s Hurricane Conference – which will take place at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. It’s smart to be informed and to be prepared. But while I take hurricane season preparation seriously there is often something you hear, which is true, but that I don’t philosophically prescribe to. The common refrain that “it only takes one”. People who say it generally mean well (though occasionally I have come across the use of it in moments of what I’d consider to be weather hype). But it’s also not practical or pragmatic. Of course, it only takes one hurricane to potentially create huge problems and life-threatening effects in its path. But it’s also obviously true that the fewer “ones” there are, the less likely the chance that they’ll find you. And one of the best ways to avoid having one, or “the one” is to not have the season start early. A few years ago, NOAA began considering bumping the official start of hurricane season up to mid-May. However, over the past two years we stopped streaking. We haven’t had a “pre-season” named storm since 2021. Here’s to hoping we get through a third May in a row without one which would bring about a new more positive streak. And then there’s the continuation of an ever bigger and more important streak that I pray we extend this year. It’s been 19 years since a hurricane touched ground in Palm Beach County. Twenty (plus) has a nice ring to it. It’s long been my favorite hurricane season streak and one that takes many by surprise.