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Hillsdale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hillsdale College is a private, liberal arts school. There are 3204 students; set on 400 rural acres in Southern Michigan just north of the Indiana border.\u00a0 \u201cFree Baptists\u201d founded the school 178 years ago and Hillsdale still considers itself a Christian college.\u00a0\u00a0Its modern claim to fame is as the leading independent college \u201cfree\u201d from federal and even state regulation.\u00a0\u00a0Students at Hillsdale cannot get federal or state financial aid.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, Hillsdale matches what they would get from private funds.\u00a0\u00a0This allows Hillsdale to avoid complying with any Federal and State regulations regarding education, including Title IX protections.\u00a0\u00a0In 1984 they pledged to follow their own non-discrimination policy. But \u201c\u2026with the help of God, resist, by all legal means, any encroachments on its independence\u201d (Hillsdale Website<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead Hillsdale increased their endowment by establishing the Center for Constructive Alternatives, a national center for conservative thought.  Since then, Hillsdale, along with other privately financed academic institutions like the Heritage Foundation and the Claremont Institute, make up the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement.  They also have strong Cross Country teams, competing in GMAC conference and NCAA Division II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I originally knew about Hillsdale as a coach.\u00a0\u00a0Cross country successes put them on the list of small colleges my good runners might be interested in.\u00a0\u00a0Like Cedarville near Dayton and Malone in Canton, a runner looking at Hillsdale had to consider more than academics and athletics.\u00a0\u00a0They had to decide whether they were willing to accept the strict religious and behavior codes that those institutions demanded.\u00a0\u00a0 A runner had to not only be \u201cgood enough\u201d for their team, they had to \u201cfit in\u201d on their campus.\u00a0\u00a0None of my kids went to Hillsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1619 Project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t end up on the political end of Hillsdale until the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>published\u00a0The 1619 Project\u00a0<\/em>(NYT<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0That massive study looked at American History from a very different \u201clens\u201d; the impact of enslavement on the economic, cultural and moral development of the United States.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c1619\u201d made important points that \u201cregular\u201d American History, particularly the history taught in public schools, ignored.\u00a0\u00a0As a teacher who learned \u201cour\u201d history in the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s, \u201c1619\u201d opened a whole different perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Americans were challenged by \u201c1619\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0They discovered that the \u201cstory\u201d they knew so well wasn\u2019t real, and their entire framework of history was changed.\u00a0\u00a0Many reacted with anger and denial to \u201c1619\u201d, and looked to \u201cdefeat\u201d the idea.\u00a0\u00a0Hillsdale College was a big part of the \u201c1776 Project<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0<\/em>a counter to \u201c1619\u201d. It defended the traditional, 1950\u2019s version of the American story.\u00a0\u00a0As an educator, I wanted to know what both sides were saying.\u00a0\u00a0So I signed up to get \u201c1776\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0That put me on the Hillsdale list, and I\u2019ve been there ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postulates and Theorems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The College publishes a newsletter called \u201cImprimus\u201d, an up to date primer for the conservative movement.  Last week I read an article about \u201cThe Twitter Files<\/a>\u201d and the \u201cexistential threat\u201d the US government now poses to American democracy itself.   Without going to \u201cinto the weeds\u201d about the Twitter Files themselves, the article outlines a set of assumptions that conservative academia has about our recent history.  And it is those assumptions that make it extraordinarily difficult for us to communicate across our ideologic boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was a sophomore in High School, I took geometry.\u00a0\u00a0I was never a \u201cmath kid\u201d, and worse, I was uninspired by our geometry teacher.\u00a0\u00a0In spite of that,\u00a0\u00a0I did learn about postulates and theorems.\u00a0\u00a0Postulates were \u201cgivens\u201d that required no proof.\u00a0\u00a0They were simply accepted as fact.\u00a0\u00a0Theorems, on the other hand, needed proof.\u00a0\u00a0The best parts of geometry was watching the teacher lick chalk from his fingers, and getting out of the class at the end of the year.\u00a0\u00a0But the concept of postulates and theorems stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d I realized how different the postulates were between conservative\u00a0\u00a0academia and my own sources.\u00a0\u00a0Which leads me to the following discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liberal and Conservative cannot communicate with each other, because we fail to share a common set of postulates to base discussions.\u00a0\u00a0If we don\u2019t agree on fundamental facts, postulates, how could we possibly solve greater problems, theorems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Laptop and Russia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So what postulates did I glean from \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hunter Biden laptop absolutely revealed a direct financial connection between Hunter\u2019s corrupt actions and Joe Biden.\u00a0\u00a0The Biden laptop information is \u201cpostulate\u201d, fact without question, regardless of the \u201cchain of custody\u201d issues, or the lack of President Biden\u2019s replies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI used undue influence to keep the laptop story from \u201cbreaking\u201d on social media, particularly Twitter (now X).\u00a0\u00a0The FBI was working on the \u201cpostulate\u201d that Russia exercised a massive mis-information campaign during the 2016, impacting the results.\u00a0\u00a0The author of the article rejects that premise completely, minimizing the impact of the Internet Research Service efforts, and claims instead that the FBI was working to elect liberals \u2013 because (postulate) that\u2019s what the FBI\u00a0\u00a0(and other government agencies) do, even during the Trump Administration and under Republican leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian involvement in the 2016 election was a \u201choax\u201d, as was \u201cthe official Covid narrative\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insurrection and the Deep State<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump did nothing to incite an Insurrection (and, in fact, the Insurrection itself was just a protest, like Black Lives Matter marches of the summer before). \u201c\u2026That same day (January 6, 2021), key Twitter staffers correctly determined that Trump\u2019s tweets did not constitute incitement of violence or violate any other Twitter policies.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Therefore Twitter had no \u201cright\u201d to ban Trump, and only did so under pressure from the above mentioned government agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwitter was taking marching orders from a deep state security apparatus that was created to fight terrorists, not to censor or manipulate public discourse.\u201d In fact, \u201cThe FBI in particular has directly meddled in the last two presidential elections to a degree that should call into question its continued existence.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026The administrative state has metastasized into a destructive deep state that threatens to bring about the collapse of America\u2019s constitutional system within our lifetimes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Once you accept this as a postulate, then any actions the FBI, Homeland Security, or other agencies take to protect voting or social media from manipulation is, in fact, attempting to collapse the Constitutional system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Squares and Parallelograms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How can we possibly get back to the \u201cold days\u201d, when conservatives and liberals could discuss across their ideologies and reach compromise?  If we don\u2019t even share the same history (1619 versus 1776, Russia involvement in 2016) or view of the role of government (continued existence of the FBI), or believe in the dangers of un-regulated social media; then where is the point of mutual agreement?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we can\u2019t even agree that a square has four equal sides, where do we even begin to talk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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