[lbo-talk] who are the Teabaggers?

[Joanna]

"The time when a-political middle-class kids went to college and left
transformed as liberals died 40-50 years ago. I would guess (and no, I have
no evidence to back this up, thank you) that now it is right-centrist
kids coming out as libertarians. And damn yes, the college they go to 
has an
enormous influence on their political position after college - not 
necessarily
through a designed attempt to influence the young, but through the
impact of the faculty makeup - primarily centrist bourgeois cowed by
the culture (a McCarthyism absorbed in uterus)."

Kind of depends on what kind of college they go to. Ivy or U.C. or the 
like, probably.
My son went to SF state and came home swearing all his teachers were 
Marxists.
Equally lacking in evidence, but looking at curriculum and stuff, I 
would guess the
state colleges are much more left leaning.

Joanna