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This is blue blood Silicon Valley, literally the only places where leftism is the consensus opinion is amongst high school seniors. Even in the famed leftist Berkeley, leftists are a minority and at Stanford they are a shunned outcaste. On the east coast things are different, but out here libertarianism is quite a strong force. Even if she ended up at a college and made leftist friends, when she got out she would have to find a job, and all the cool kids want to work in finance/vc/consulting, the nerdy ones in engineering and the more grounded ones become doctors. In none of those fields could you survive as a leftist.Again you are not looking at the big picture. How the hell is the environment going to change from pure leftist BS to a classical liberal one when everyone one in their age is fed the same BS about leftism? And the ones you talk about those who go with the flow without any opinion are most like going to go with the flow again when you try reasoning about classical liberalism. They are more likely to nod to your pressure to reason than come to a decision on their own, seeing how they dint come to a conclusion in their schools and college. So how does one bring about classic liberal thinking as majority here?
And seriously you should take up my challenge. It is fun and would teach you a lot more than you think.
Since you insist, she called me for help on the homework assignment, saying that she looked for sources in american texts which legitimized the thesis that her teacher had proposed, but hadn't found any and was perplexed since "it was so obviously true". I said she was unlikely to find much, unless she looked into the writings of confederate leaders. She ended up writing that there was an interest amongst some southerners in maintaining their racial privilege, but by and large slavery was looked on as a problem but one too difficult to solve at that time. That sounds fair enough.
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