God Hates a Berkeley

Florida, beware! Our colleges teeter on the brink of becoming like a certain institution in a certain deranged state on the Leftist Coast where they openly embrace Hispanic vowels, plastic bag bans and Pete Buttigieg. Worse, they allow, nay, encourage! students to commit activism, a direct result of thinking.

Not the sort of thing we want for our children.

Addressing the state university system’s Board of Governors, Gov. Ron DeSantis warned against the “culture” which flourishes “in places like a Berkeley.”

The so-called University of California at Berkeley may brag about its 107 Nobel Prize laureates, as well as its 45 MacArthur Fellows, 14 Fields Medalists, and 14 Pulitzer Prize-winners, but the dread curse of “activism” renders its ranking as the world’s top public university perfectly meaningless.

“Activism,” as the governor said, “is a bad way to go.”

The governor graduated from “a Yale.”

To combat that Berkeley style of dangerous social awareness and political engagement which supported the Civil Rights Movement, pushed for women’s equality, popularized resistance to the Vietnam War, and–most importantly– hurt conservatives’s feelings, Florida’s Republican leaders have pledged to fight the sinister forces in higher education that encourage our youth to read books full of radical foreign ideas and question our God-given profit motive.

The governor rightly prefers our universities stay in their lane: that is, producing young people highly skilled at asking, “Do you want fries with that?”

To this end, a bill is currently moving through the Florida House mandating universities survey the political and social beliefs of their faculty and students every year so our government can identify the commies, the AOC fans, the owners of “Lock Him Up” hats, the public radio donors, the users of gender-neutral pronouns, the Parkland kids aficionados, the Medicare-for-All crowd, and the kill-joys who frown on the good clean fun of fraternity parties.

No longer will the children of Florida taxpayers have to accept without protest the so-called “scientific method,” forced to accept the “theories” of gravity, natural selection and heliocentrism. No longer will our kids fear standing up to tenured liberals in the classroom to proclaim that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, Native Americans wanted to give their land to the nice white people, and Emily Dickinson was a weirdo.

We’ll insist colleges hire more God-fearing Young Earth adherents and free market evangelicals. Surely there are plenty of Ph.D.s from Bob Jones and Liberty U. who’d be happy to work 70 hours a week for forty grand a year.

To nip unhygienic thoughts in the bud before our kids even get to college, Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Gone With the Wind, has filed a bill (SB 330) demanding that K-12 schools teach “controversial theories and concepts” in a “factual, objective and balanced manner.”

Teachers will have to tell both sides. One the one hand, the Great Rift Valley and bipedal apes, on the other hand, blond Adam and Eve. And regardless of the way 98 percent of so-called “scientists” can show the earth has been getting drastically warmer since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, so what? Maybe God wants Alaska to grow oranges.

Baxley’s bill also decrees that civics and history lessons “strictly adhere to the founding values and principles of the United States.”

Founding values and principles such as “all men are created equal” (emphasis on men, as in white), and God really does like America best.

Sen. Baxley’s nice friends at the Florida Citizens’ Alliance, who helped him write the bill, have expressed rightful suspicion of the 14^th, 15^th and 19^th Amendments to the Constitution and worry that Islam has infiltrated our schools. Patriots!

Sen. Baxley is very busy. That survey to expose the total lefti-hood of universities? That was his idea. He’s also pushing for our right to pack heat in schools and carry our Jesus-blessed guns in church, as well as protect Confederate monuments from Political Corrections, make it nearly impossible to abort a precious baby human, or allow citizens to pass a constitutional amendment.

God’s work.

Sen. Baxley, Gov. DeSantis and all our Christian soldiers will make sure we don’t get Californicated here in Florida. Berkeley? They were nasty to that nice young man Milo Yiannopoulos and their football team sucks. Last year they lost to Texas Christian in the Cheez-It Bowl.

Obviously, God hates a Berkeley.