When your final argument is to resort to calling the other side conspiratorial, you know youve lost the debate entirely. Gee i wonder why the most well-read, informed, and educated people in our society are mostly liberal leaning.

Maybe, just maybe, its because the left is right on most every issue.

A long running debate on AWE ultimately resulted in the conclusion that facts were liberal things. I was astounded when no conservative even bothered to challenge the conclusion.

1) There are both liberals and conservatives represented in college faculty and administrations. But is true there are more liberals. And that isn't because conservatives get shut out from getting those positions. It's because conservatives for generations didn't want them. They don't want them because:

a) teaching, as a profession, is about lifting up all in your community, which is much more of a liberal mindset than conservative. Heck, if your take on social issues is people need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and whatever their challenge it's their own darn problem they face it then why would you want to teach?

b) conservatives, once out of school, are about doing their thing and getting theirs, whether it's business or some other profession. They don't want to be full time faculty. Indeed the ones who dabble in the field are basically in it just to market what they know and make a buck off of it (like Trump University, hmm).

2) It isn't liberals who repeatedly cut funding to education whenever they get a chance. Why would an industry that depends on schools be heavily staffed with the people who want to defund schools?

3) A fact is not automatically right or wrong just because it comes from a liberal or a conservative. What is indeed wrong though is just pointing to the side it originated from and not bothering to study what it is. Once upon a time the conservative positions were the earth was the center of the universe, and/or it's flat, and it's only a few thousand years old. Evidence to the contrary is not wrong just because it comes from someone not in line with the conservative thoughts of their day. Indeed, usually it's the contrary. Usually the reason the liberal sourced facts have basis, which is why they can't just get swept under the rug by conservative critics.

4) Finally, I just want to point out that many of most ardent critics of academia for being liberal are people who are outsiders to that whole experience. They either never went to college or dropped out without finishing. Not all. There are exceptions. But I know among my family the people who think they're so smart poking at academia are the ones who never sat a single day in a college classroom to know anything about what it's really like.