{"id":66681,"date":"2024-07-15T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=66681"},"modified":"2024-07-14T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T14:26:34","slug":"qotd-sticking-it-to-the-man-in-collegetown-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/07\/15\/qotd-sticking-it-to-the-man-in-collegetown-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sticking it to “the Man” in Collegetown, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in College Town, it was as predictable as sunrise: Every election year, a group of Leftie goofs would picket Republican Party headquarters. It was an exercise in futility, of course \u2014 since College Town was exactly that, and it totally dominated its surrounding county, no Republican had bothered even making a whistle stop there since the 1950s. A Republican couldn’t get elected dog catcher; the token county headquarters was, no fooling, located in an all-but-abandoned strip mall next to a thrift store.<\/p>\n

But it made a certain type of college kid, and of course xzhyr professors, feel good about themselves, sticking it to The Man like that, so they kept on keepin’ on. In the grand tradition of puerile student protest, they’d routinely chalk up the parking lot and sidewalk in front of the building with catchy slogans like “this sidewalk brought to you by socialism!” Yes, they really thought that, and if you’ve followed my “inside the ivory gulag” posts, you can easily suss out why: Sidewalks are public services; public services are paid for by taxes; “conservatives” are against taxes; “conservatives” are also against socialism; therefore sidewalks are socialist.<\/p>\n

No, really \u2014 I’ve heard more than one professor<\/em> make a version of that “argument”. If it’s a public service of any kind \u2014 police, trash pickup, whatever \u2014 it’s by definition “socialist”, because it’s paid for by taxes, and “conservatives” think all taxes, everywhere, are totally illegitimate.<\/p>\n

College these days runs about $20K per year on average, by the way. What a deal, huh?<\/p>\n

Severian, “Caveat Emptor”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-06-16.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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