Liberal Academics

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Clarissa

May 12, 2016

So. Want to guess how my colleagues – aka supposedly hugely Liberal college educators – respond to Rauner’s hijacking of our healthcare?

Yes, of course, their response is that Obamacare is evil and should be repealed.

What does Obamacare have to do with our health insurance? Nothing what-so-bloody-ever. But it should be repealed because government can never manage anything right. Instead, we should all get tax credits and be able to buy health insurance across state lines, which will foster competition and solve all our problems.

The above-quoted argument is a very short rendering of the rants I’m receiving through campus email from my supposedly hugely Liberal colleagues re: Rauner’s depredations in the state of Illinois. I have not received any rant imbued with a competing ideology.

First, I was at Yale where using words like feminism, ideology and identity made me a target of veritable persecution. Then, I was at Cornell where we had actual conferences on how to despise any introduction of the political into our research. Now I’m at a regional state school where the only answer to everything is “repeal Obamacare” and “government is evil.” I can’t tell you how many times the subject of “evil government” has come up a propos of every subject in existence at our state school.

In the meanwhile, all I ever hear about is this powerful cabal of Liberal academics who kill every vestige of conservatism on campuses. My only question is: where are those Liberal campuses? I’d like at least to catch a glimpse of one before I retire.

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4 responses to “Liberal Academics”

Shakti

May 12, 2016

It’s easier to rail impotently about a piece of legislation they don’t like and a President they don’t like than it is to do something about a solitary governor who they might like and they could be more effective against. Railing against Rauner means they have to face the toothlessness of the union as well.

Being on the “open market” for health insurance sucks. How many of your colleagues have procured insurance on this market already?

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1. Clarissa
  
  May 12, 2016
  
  “How many of your colleagues have procured insurance on this market already?”
  
  Nobody! We are completely sheltered from both Obamacare and open market.
  
  I started answering these rants but then realized I couldn’t make them sound not filled with rabid anger. I don’t care what anybody’s politics are but I detest being exposed to arrant stupidity on my university email account. This has nothing at all to do with Obamacare. One has to be deranged to bring Obamacare into this conversation.
  
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  1. Shakti
    
    May 12, 2016
    
    Nobody! We are completely sheltered from both Obamacare and open market.
    I thought some people might, disenrolling from the university insurance and getting another. At least the regular insurance would pay for hospital and doctor bills. What this tells me is that even throwing money away on university insurance is a better deal than the state exchange or they’re still holding out some hope that the insurance situation will be resolved.
    
    I mean, my shitty preACA insurance/HSA is going to be $191/month at my renewal date and it pays for absolutely nothing unless I meet a high deductible ($5000 network/$10,000 network). The cheapest plans on the exchange are much more expensive and require a $10,000 deductible. Other plans are rent level expensive (subsidies, what subsidies, my state sucks). The prescription coverage is non-existent. I realize this sounds very cheap to you and a lot of other people, but the end result is that I might as well not have insurance.
    
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matt

May 12, 2016

are these more administrators or professors? I am not sure that administration is nearly as liberal as professors..

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