Here within its confines of unreality, the Left flourishes like a protected species. Would that it were endangered. Here, however, it thrives as in no other place. Absent its natural predator, reality, in whose close proximity the Left cannot long survive, the Left has over-reproduced to the point of population saturation.

It was not always this way. Two generations ago, in the 1960s, when campuses ignited, students rebelled against — if not a conservative culture there — at least a staid establishment one. To JFK’s invocation to “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” they shouted “NO!” They self-satisfiedly refused The Greatest Generation, who largely had never been to college, or, if they had, had earned the GI Bill on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific.

The Sixties, after all, were all about the protests. And college campuses have been all about the Left ever since.

Of course, the Sixties’ college campuses were not really all aflame. As with most things of the Left, this was gross exaggeration. Relatively few were, but they became the template for what the Left wanted colleges to be and what they have carefully cultivated ever since. Sadly, they have mostly succeeded.

The campus culture of liberalism has taken root, cultivated to the point of requirement by those who have never left the game preserve: Administrators, professors, and the myriad of other hangers-on who, under the auspices of preparing others for the wilds beyond their game preserve gates, will do anything to avoid going there themselves.

With two generations having now passed, these self-styled radicals are now the Establishment. Therefore, “rebelling” by joining a “rebellion” 60 years old is not rebellious behavior at all; it is conforming. Today’s campus Left demands such conformity to a greater extent than the Establishment they displaced ever did.

These Pharisees of “fairness” adhere to myriad rules, which serve to strangle the ideals they profess — the first of which is free thinking. In these incubators of the perpetually offended, it is a miracle any students survive to release into the real world beyond.

Until then, students have the luxury of four years to romp and play in the game preserve. Immediately they will be shown the standard for today’s conformity and told that by conforming to it they will truly shock. Of course, this cannot be. It is impossible to rebel by simply conforming to the same standard as those around you.

So how do the aspiring, who are told to shock and rebel and are shown how to shock and rebel by the authorities around them, instead truly shock and rebel? By being conservatives. If two generations ago leftism was the rebellion to the conservative establishment, right is now the rebellion to college campuses’ liberal establishment.