Being a liberal is as trendy as Starbucks and Pokemon GO. But, should our politics just be based on fitting into the people around us? Of course not. Getting involved in our government and being the leaders of a new generation can not be put up to what is popular in the minds of your peers. We can't forget that truth is the most important thing even when the world has forgotten it. A lot of us get started in politics at our universities, which is probably one of the worst places to start. Professors at public universities are overwhelmingly liberal and progressive, often only giving one side to any particular current event or moment in history. We go to college and feel empowered by the intellectual thought, but we often do not see the hidden biases in our universities' agendas.
Students must become more aware of the political sphere before they attend university or they will forever be lost in a world of blind liberalism and utopia-style thinking. We have seen incidents in the past year of liberal professors actually astonished at what kind of monster they have created on their campus. In a bizarre world of trigger warnings and safe spaces, campus is a dumpster fire of crazy people. Critical thinking and political discourse have all become a thing of the past due to the groupthink and brainwashing of public universities.
Students are catching on; they are tired of being told how to think. If you're a conservative on a big public campus you will be thrown in the ring of fire for your beliefs. The other side won't even give you the time of day to listen to your arguments (mostly because they don't have any). Liberals used to fight for what they thought was right during the Vietnam War, free speech, critical thinking. Now they fight for the literal silence of their conservative peers. Young students are tired of having to be politically correct, watching every word they say in order to appease middle-class white liberals who will do anything to try and make them talk/act/think like them.
College liberals have gone so far off the deep end to the left that others have continuously shifted to the right of the political spectrum. I'm glad that millennials are starting to notice just how ridiculous their friends' and peers' politics are at university. I am proud to be a part of the new conservative youth and not to have fallen into the trap of being a blind follower of my professors over the top politics. I know others have been making this switch as well and I am very proud to be on the side of truth and reason.
