by J.M. Schell

Created on: August 16, 2008

Many liberals are secretly conservatives. They have to be if they want to keep their jobs.

This is especially true in education, the arts and the media. The American education system, K-post-doc, is filled, stem to stern with liberals, in both the classroom and the administration. A typical American public (private is little better) college faculty will self-identify as "liberal" or "very liberal" ideologically (modern, American definition) to the tune of 80%. This is tempered only by a small number of tenured professors in disciplines such as business, economics, science, math, etc., who admit to being ideologically conservative. Still, the numbers of "liberals" even in these disciplines is quite high and virtually anyone not already tenured, who does not toe the liberal line, will ever gain tenure in nearly any public or private (excluding some Christian colleges) university or college.

In K-12 education, acceptance of a liberal ideology runs to nearly 100% in America's urban centers and into the 70% range even in "red" states and more suburban or even rural areas. As in higher education, few K-12 public school teachers who openly hold conservative views are permitted by the gatekeepers of this bigoted and restrictive system either to enter the profession or to keep their jobs if they admit to being conservative. Reminiscent of Stalin's Soviet Union, one large education college has an "exit board" which has been set up to interview near-graduates of the program. The board's openly admitted primary goal is to weigh and measure the political ideology of the prospective new teacher and if that is found to be one which does not toe the liberal line, even straight-A students risk not being granted their certificate. This, of course, will keep them out of the profession, entirely, as is the intent of this "board."

Elsewhere, until tenured, any new teacher with even mildly conservative views in virtually any public school in America must walk on eggshells, carefully parsing everything they say or do lest they be found out, and shown the door. Meanwhile, as we've all seen in countless events over especially the past eight years across the nation, teachers with even the most extreme leftist views are welcomed into the bosom of public education. In one case that got national attention in Colorado, a "red" state, a teacher was recorded day after day, spending his Geography class not teaching geography, but rather railing against the Bush administration. When a student

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