Finneran: Middlebury’s March Madness

Friday, March 24, 2017

Tom Finneran, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™

To the Parents: Don’t pay the tuition. You have been duped. Your daughter is not getting an education.

To the Applicants: Don’t go. You would be entering a concentration camp.

To the Alumni: Don’t contribute. You will be subsidizing madness.

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To the Trustees: Fire the President. Immediately.

To any grown-up in Middlebury’s administration: a) Expel every student involved in the “protest”--i.e.—the mob assault; b) initiate criminal complaints.

Middlebury College’s version of March Madness has nothing to do with basketball. Nor is its madness limited to the month of March. Its madness is of year-round duration, much like the madness overwhelming many college campuses today.

Just think of it---all this totalitarian corruption for the modest price of sixty-thousand dollars a year. You’d be better off sending your son Jack and your daughter Mary to trade school. Jack and Mary would be better off too. Plumbers and electricians are at least as smart and certainly more reliable than the “studies” majors flooding America’s college campuses. Question: Does anyone study finance anymore? Engineering? Chemistry?

For those people who have been asleep for the past few weeks, you may have missed the mayhem of mob action at a recent Middlebury College lecture. The details are not important other than to note that a controversial—i.e.—“conservative” guest lecturer was invited to speak on the campus. Cowardly administrators then capitulated to politically correct mobsters run amok. Yet another bucolic campus has become a gulag of grim indoctrination and violent assault.

For those bewildered analysts who cannot figure out Donald Trump’s fall victory, they should, detective-like, examine the crime scene at Middlebury. For those Democrats looking for a path out of the political wilderness in which they wander, they too should consider the forensics of this college inferno.

Simply put, the Middlebury mob exists on too many campuses. Simply put, their actions are intolerable. Simply put, college presidents and administrators are over-paid under-performers. Simply put, the mob ringleaders should be jailed, prosecuted, and expelled. Let them bring their revolution home to Mom and Dad, minus the sixty thousand dollars of tuition paid.

Normal Americans survey the scene and shrug at the nonsense of adults tolerating these juvenile tantrums. They see the arson and rioting at Berkley. They see the seething ignorance of the bullies at Middlebury and they wonder about these “best and brightest”, these moral vamps who speak of tolerance while smashing the chapel.

Normal Americans no longer raise their voices however. For far too long they have been lectured and harangued as ignorant, hateful, and biased. That such accusations come from those best and brightest souls, those elitists whose Ivy League brilliance and whose sad pretensions have bankrupted the nation is a rich irony indeed. Heaps more irony can be observed in the economic enclaves the elitists inhabit, isolated and insulated far from the madding swarms of people they profess to love. Think of Zuckerberg in his walled Malibu compound or on his 700 acre guarded Kauai estate, lecturing normal Americans about their racist xenophobia.

Now consider the silence of two distinct groups---normal sensible Americans and aspiring political leaders. The silence of the first group is completely understandable. They have been mocked and scorned and bullied for years and thus they go underground. Their silence however is not an assent to the politically correct demands of the New York Times. Rather, their silence is an ominous sign of resistance to the reigning madness. They cherish the secret ballot. They are wise and right to do so. Can you imagine the crimes of the campus mobs if they could view each citizen’s ballot?

The second group, those aspiring political leaders, might find some moral backbone and loudly denounce the violent demonstrators. The timidity of these political leaders is telling. They seem to be afraid. Where is Elizabeth Warren, formerly a professor at several colleges and presumably in favor of free and open intellectual exchange? She seems readily available to speak on many matters but on this matter of student violence and campus conformity she’s gone silent. She is missing a golden opportunity, the same opportunity that Donald Trump seized in his denunciations of the political status quo.

I remember candidate Bill Clinton separating himself from a host of candidates when he heard Sister Souljah’s cop-hating, cop-killing lyrics. Clinton denounced those lyrics in no uncertain terms and he harvested the votes of citizens who yearned for leadership in the midst of madness. Such are the opportunities today when student bullies and faculty toadies fancy themselves as the exclusive arbiters of the First Amendment. Might some adults arrive on the scene? Soon?

As for Middlebury, cherish the memory of a once-good school. It has succumbed to a raging fever.

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Tom Finneran is the former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, served as the head the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, and was a longstanding radio voice in Boston radio.

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