GOP House Candidate Says College Turns Young People Into Leftists Who Hate America

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A Republican House candidate claimed Saturday that college education turns young people into “radical, leftist, hating-America atheists.”

“We know how important the youth are to our future because you can raise them the right way. You can work your butts off every day to put food on the table, send them off to college, and then what ends up happening?” said Christian Collins, a Republican candidate for Texas’ 8th Congressional district, at a rally just north of Houston at the Grace Woodlands church.

“They go off to college not knowing what they believe sometimes, and their teachers, their professors, try to deconstruct everything that you’ve taught them. And they go off with the college that you paid for and come out radical, leftist, hating-America atheists, and they don’t have any usable skills to get employed. And then they’re even more cynical.”

Collins has the support of some of the most vocal pro-Trump Republicans in Congress, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Madison Cawthorn (N.C.), both of whom attended his event. He also has the endorsement of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a prominent right-wing conspiracy theorist, also addressed attendees at the event.

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Another Republican who believes intelligence is elitist.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Yeah, sure. Being a music major made me into a radical leftist . . . . .

Same with Logic.

[hatrack]

2. As opposed to ending up a tightly puckered phony Evangelical asshole like you?

Sounds OK to me . . .

[dwayneb]

3. Sickening

But not surprising. No successful autocracy or dictatorship can survive and thrive unless they suppress education and intellectualism.

[alwaysinasnit]

4. Sooooo, Collins has a college degree. Does he speak from experience about coming out radical,

leftist, blah, blah, blah?

https://ballotpedia.org/Christian_Collins

[Wounded Bear]

5. Democrats consider that enlightened education...

[vercetti2021]

6. I didn't go to college

I love America but hate conservatives with a passion. So what radicalized me? Jagoff

[Mad_Machine76]

7. This has been the basic (sub-)text of their attacks on College and Universities

Of course, it's not true, and it obviously doesn't explain the existence of Young Republicans

[DavidDvorkin]

8. And that's why we need free college for everyone.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. How does he explain College Young Republicans?

[LastDemocratInSC]

10. Prejudice rarely survives life experience.

[canuckledragger]

11. And I'd say he's projecting, as cons are prone to do...

And that it's the GQP that turns young people into righties that hate america.

No wonder they hate education.