Young America's Best
by Kevin McCullough

Why do the university campuses in America need millions of dollars donated from George Soros and some 80 additional extremely wealthy liberals to fund Campus Project? Why do they need Campus Project to schedule speakers like Bill Clinton, Paul Begala, Al Gore, and many of the less temperate liberal icons to come to their locations and make speeches to university students?

Isn't it redundant on the secular college campus?

None the less, recently the Washington Post reported that a minimum of 80 well-to-dos of the liberal persuasion are to begin pooling their monies into a big fat $200 million pot. The Post as well as the Los Angeles Times has also reported that George Soros has started an organization called Campus Project with an opening operating budget of some $700,000.

The main goal of both efforts is to somehow counter the growing movement among campus conservatives in exposing the students at major universities to liberal ideologies.

There is one major problem though...

They've already heard it all.

The indoctrination process on the American university campus is well documented. Do some in-depth time with Ben Shapiro in either of his best-sellers Brainwashed or Porn Generation and you will come away with a clear picture and understanding of the culture kids emerge from today, and the mind-melt they go through to become another liberal clone spouting the talking points of the most radical activist groups in the nation.

As I say often on the air, "the university campus is the only place where everything that a parent has taught a young person for 18 years is completely undermined in one semester of their freshman year."

So why the new campus groups by the big libs?

It probably has far more to do with the success of another campus group - that is making a huge impact on students in the university setting - Young America's Foundation.

Recently YAF held its summer conference - a National Conservative Student Conference on the campus of George Washington University. I was honored to be invited to come and broadcast from the event, and what I saw was truly inspiring.

Young men and women, well dressed, well spoken, kind, polite, out going, coming together for a week in the hot humid weather of Washington D.C. to listen, dialogue, and think. Disciplining their minds, arguing with their friends, and having the time to soak in the impressive line-up that YAF had put before them was how these open minds used their time.

Earlier in the year I had been to a similar conference primarily populated by liberals on the campus of the City University of New York campus. The experience was a polar opposite. Liberals are unhappy people, angry, sad of heart, foul of mouth, and in general mean of mind.

A moderate student - caught in the philosophical crossfire between the Campus Project type of liberalism, and the Young America's Foundation - positive, upbeat, can do approach would most likely be more attracted on first glance to the group that is more civil, and respectful of each other.

But there is something bigger at work here as well - the issue of truth.

I say it all the time, Conservatives believe in God (the author of truth); Liberals believe god is what they make him. Conservatives have standards; liberals defy limits, absolutes, or boundaries. In conservative thinking - logic will lead one to its natural outcome; liberalism will lead you only to self gratification.

In a day and age which young people know increasingly more of the inadequacies of the political process because of liberal corruption, it is my belief that they are looking for a stronger set of standards to hang their belief system hats upon.

There may be no stopping the millionaires from pouring their $200.7 million in start up funds into the liberal campus projects. And rest assured speakers like Paul Begala, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore will be glad to come take a stipend for speaking to the students. But in the end it will always be the quality of the message that will cause such efforts to multiply or to sputter and choke.

And at Young America's Foundation -- "choke" is not on the menu.

Kevin McCullough is heard daily in New York City, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware on AM 570 WMCA and AM 970 WWDJ from 1-4pm. Adding stations in Chicago, Boston, and 16 more markets soon. Write KMC at kmc@wmca.com . Read KMC daily on his web-log at http://kmc.crosswalk.com.

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