Brief Political Phenomenology of the Republican Electorate

Two more aspects, briefly, of the American political phenomenology.

First, the Republican electorate, especially on the campuses, and again here I'm reporting what I've observed carefully so this is postjudice, not prejudice, is that the Republican professors have made themselves as small as possible. They shrink from criticism because of the irrational hatred of the Democrat electorate, the Democrat faculty (the faculty) and the Democrat administration (the administration). They shrink their online presence , their political views expressed in signs, hats, shirts, opinions in public venue, written or spoken, to virtually and in most cases nothing, whether they have tenure or not, it does not seem to matter. The answer to their employment challenges, whether it's looking for work or keeping the job they have, is not to do what their Democrat colleagues do as a matter of course, that is, simply express their views. The answer is to freeze, like a rabbit being hunted, only their nose moving, and to hide in a corner, and that's what it takes to get along. If you're black at a Democrat Klan rally, you'd better keep that hood on, the thinking goes . Of course, why would you be at the rally ? Why would a Republican work in "education"? Maybe that's the only job you can get, and you want to make a difference, so you have to go where the job is, and the Democrats control that.

As an Adjunct professor, I observed this over the course of about 180-190 courses at 12 colleges and universities across three counties in Southern California, a geographical area with the population more than several entire states in the US. Geographical areas that once were dominated by Republicans, back when there was no grade inflation and housing costs were normal , there was a reasonable response to crime and people were not worried about crime for the most part, and there were jobs, and life was good, grade inflation was way down on campuses, and California attracted hundreds of thousands of other Americans from other areas, but which now are much more, if not completely controlled by Democrats and all of those descriptions have morphed into their opposites.

Now, this hatred in the hearts of Democrats is stirred by our own sinfulness as James says in the New Testament, and is encouraged by Satan. If you don't believe Satan exists, chances are you're a Democrat (except the ones who worship Satan, of course, and I'm not certain what percentage/proportion of the Democrat electorate it is, I'd say it's low, but significant), this hatred, and this lack of courage on the part of Republicans, works together to produce a perfect storm.

I'll give you an example. I've had former guests, some, when they went to look for other employment, ask TRP Podcast to take down their innocuous episode. Why ? Not because of anything actually offensive in the "content", in fact, the opposite. The "content", as the moronic term goes, is fine, great in fact, makes the person look great, because the person IS great. That is actually, accurately captured in slow media (what the author of Digital Minimalism, Deep Work, Cal Newport calls "slow media", which is the specialty of The Republican Professor ). The former guest(s) I'm talking about all of a sudden are worried about what ? About the word "Republican", simply the word. That's it. It gets in the way of being the rabbit, the making oneself small, tiny, in the face of irrational, overwhelming (a perception not always in keeping with reality, until the perception becomes the reality due to cowardly inaction to stop it) Democrat hatred of Republicans , hatred for getting in the Democrats' way of total control, either of the campus, the county, the city, the state, the school board, the legislature, the governorship, the judiciary, and on and on.

This is a sufficient explanation for the slow growth of The Republican Professor . And I knew it not only when I started it, but before I started it -- I'd been seeing it for years, recall. It's that way until there is a dam that breaks forth, here and there, which leads to a little bit more courage, here and there. And the lesson applies off campus, as well, into the culture, especially corporate culture, with the HR departments being taken over by people who love the Bostock US Supreme Court decision written by Gorsuch, but people who have not read it, nor would agree with it if they did, but who love the conclusion because they see other uses for it for Socialism.

So that's where we were. The next part will cover a third aspect of American political phenomenology, and that is, the electorate who doesn't know what total control is, who don't keep track of that kind of thing, that kind of fact, and more frighteningly, might not care, even if they knew what it was, as long as it's Democrats in charge at the time.