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joether -> RE: First to throw his hat in the ring (3/24/2015 3:23:21 PM)
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So...Ted Cruz?
"Douchebag needing a better suit" or "In dire need of an image change...like with a mohawk"?
Either way, I found his speech to be a President less than stellar. But then the venue was also deceptive. Mr. Cruz spoke before Liberty University to students. In the videos it shows the area is packed with students. What isn't explained (particularly on conservative media) is those students were forced to attend.
Conservative colleges and universities different from their liberal counterparts in many ways. One of them is pushing an ideology onto the student population. That there are many rules on top of those for the locality, state and federal. These rules are to push a mindset and viewpoint that is conservative. Having been on both a liberal and conservative campus, I can state, the difference is both observable and detectable in information given and received. Conservative 'schools of higher learning' use a system of penalties to discourage activities and viewpoints it doesn't want. They have to tread carefully, as one good legal argument could blow the doors off their long term existence.
The systems use a demerit and penalty. What this means is that if you acquire 'X' number of demerits in a single semester, bad things WILL happen to you. This could be anywhere from missing out on a semester to expulsion! Often the demerits are handed out by individuals whom are draconian to others, but cry when they gain a demerit for the same shit! Liberty University's penalty for not attention its 'speech times' is 4 demerits and a $10 fine. It doesn't take many demerits at that school to create more problems to the student. So the students are basically forced to attend, regardless of circumstance.
One time while a bunch of us were bored on campus, we took the student book of one of these conservative colleges just down the road from us. We asked "What is the fewest demerits we could get for killing someone?" It was just 14. Well below the threshold for being ban for a semester (which is 25), and only if the investigators didn't pin anything on us. Stuff like 'a party' is defined by having more than three people in a room. Or that opening a window is against the rules. That having any kind of alcoholic beverage is not allowed. And playing music that is not 'approved' is also against the rules. Yeah, those are some of the many rules I remember some twenty years later! Given that school, I doubt things have changed.
Likewise, the school is very open to political viewpoints. Just as long as those viewpoints are conservative! For instance in 2009, the campus's Democratic Party was shutdown. Fearing a valid lawsuit (and reduction in federal funds), they allowed the organization to exist. HOWEVER....it could not be called 'Democrat' nor be associated with the Democratic Party. ALSO, this organization had to be pro-marriage and anti-abortion. A string of other requirements were also made beyond that. An what requirements and/or strings are the Republican Party on campus required to perform? None.
I for one would be appalled of any political group being forced through hoops that other political parties on campus did not have to endure. But thats because I was on a liberal campus....
While the school states there are Rand Paul supporters (those would be the ones in the red shirts in the videos seen), they number just 12. Yes, 12 people in the 10,000+ students that were required to attend. That's less then 0.1% of the total population.
So the viewer is given a number of deceptions without realizing things with Ted Cruz's announcement is full of shit. And he and the university have the balls to state "they are for liberty"......
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