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In the primary, vote for the Blue Hen. In the general, vote for the Blue Hen.
If recent events has taught us anything it’s that our elite institutions are not so elite. What can be done about that? Beats me.
I long ago sent my liberal arts college diploma back return to sender.
I suspect institutions are like relationships. You get out of them what you put into them but sometimes people are free riders.
You don’t need to take a position on Harvard and all that jazz and razzle dazzle to wonder rightly if maybe this institution isn’t what it used to be or ought to be or could be. I’m against shakedowns in all their forms but maybe it’s shakedowns all the way down. Might we clean them up? Sure but that’s not easily done. Best to just move on from an abusive relationship.
Candidly I don’t really pay much mind to where people went to school. I pay much more attention to what people can do, the sort of life they’ve led, how attractive their wife is, you know, that sort of thing.
I find myself surrounded by family and friends who are way smarter than I am who went to way less impressive schools. Could it be, dear friends, that we’ve turned the meritocracy into a cartel that keeps millions of people outside the gates looking in like a fat kid, forced to sit on the bench, during the game?
There is a way to break this cartel and it’s seemingly one that we are already doing —
Just pass it by.
Consider:
Our President is a University of Delaware alum.
The most responsible candidate for the GOP nomination is a University of Delaware alum.
It doesn’t get much easier than this folks. Maybe the way to be elite is to be elite and not just talk about it.