When you hear the right-wing vocal minority describe the
situation in America's college campuses, you'd think that these places have
become camps for radical anarchists who would transform the entire country into
a Woodstock kind of ongoing festival dedicated to hedonistic indulgences and
lazy endeavors.
Knowing that this is false because you see no evidence of it,
you determine that those who put out this kind of scurrilous propaganda must
have an agenda they wish to keep out of view by distracting those who might be
inclined to investigate. And so, you resolve to find what exactly the
propaganda people want.
You find two recent articles printed in right-wing
publications that fit the profile you're looking for. One article came under
the title: “Al Gore, UN secretary-general and other elitists call for a 'great
reset' of the global economy,” and the subtitle: “All animals are equal but
some animals are more equal than others.” The article was written by Everett
Piper and published on July 4, 2020 in the Washington Times. The other article
is titled: “Defund the universities,” written by Jay Latimer and published on
July 5, 2020 in the American Thinker.
What is remarkable about the two authors is that they come
from an academic background. They drifted into journalism and now attack
academia in the worst possible of ways. They are, in effect calling for the
destruction of what used to be their spiritual homestead, their alma maters.
What is hard to understand, is that someone can be filled with this much hate
for something that used to be a part of who they were. And so, you try to make
sense of what you see.
And what you see, is that Everett Piper––who used to be
president of a university––is now complaining about other people being, “a
cadre of elitists, who fancy themselves our superiors, gathering together at
the World Economic Forum (WEF) to call for a 'Great Reset' of the entire global
economy and its political structures”.
So you ask yourself, where did this former president of a
university, get the idea that Al Gore, the Secretary General of the United
Nations and a handful of other people, fancy themselves superior to the rest of
us?
There is only one answer to that question. This is how
Everett Piper used to be until he discovered how foolish he was for fancying
himself superior to others. And so, he hated what he had become, and quickly
turned himself into a radio host, which is regarded in some quarters as being
the job of a glorified disc jockey. Still, from his newly adopted perch,
Everett Piper enchants his audiences, not with the voice of recording artists,
but his own voice singing the praises of capitalism.
Here is what makes Piper believe there is a war on
capitalism: “How, exactly, are these smarter-than-thou oligarchs planning to
convince the American people to abandon capitalism?” And here is how he
believes the war on capitalism is waged: “By scaring the heck out of people
into believing that changes are essential for stopping the next great 'crisis'
the world will face when the COVID-19 pandemic finally subsides”.
Projecting into those he calls elite, the sins that used to
motivate him, he warns the public of the following:
“When you hear the word 'redistribution' know this, it means
the total consolidation of all privilege, property and power into the hands of
a few. If you think your home, your savings account, your retirement assets are
safe, think again. Everything you have and worked for; all of your freedoms and
property will be taken from you. This is the Great Reset”.
As to Jay Latimer, he has an idea what to do with those whom
Piper has called elite. In fact, Latimer wrote an article to that effect, and
gave it a title that says it all: Defund the universities. The difference
between the two articles is that Everett Piper has defended anachronism by
preaching adherence to capitalism the way it has always been practiced. As if
to second Everett Piper's idea, Jay Latimer chose to preach destroying the
tools that can be used to introduce modernity into the existing economic
system. That would be something like checking the excesses of capitalism, for
example.
To destroy the tools that may lead to modernity, Latimer has
suggested the defunding of the universities, which can be done, he says, in
three steps. One, the alumni should stop donating to their alma maters. Two,
the government should stop guaranteeing the student loans. Three, the
government should tax the university endowments.