The YAF suggests ways students may “maximize funding from the university and private supporters” who would presumably be against them and their politics. It also has a program that teaches students how to fight “anti-military bias and misinformation” by leftists who “continue to belittle our armed forces and to prevent as many students as possible from participating in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) and from speaking with military recruiters.”
The YAF sponsors the “9/11: Never Forget Project,” which it began in 2003 after it discovered that “most college campuses were either completely ignoring the anniversary of the terrorist attacks or scheduling a politically-correct activity instead.”
Ronald Reagan is the group’s standard bearer and his creed is “the centerpiece of the student programs.” The YAF proudly touts its role in the preservation of the president’s Western White House, Rancho del Cielo, as a “living monument to Reagan’s lasting accomplishments.”
Actually, what the student audience’s nonplussed reaction to the event perhaps makes clear as we ramble along in this first decade of the twenty-first century is that arguing about religion and politics has become pointless, especially when we refuse to deal with the “elephants in the room” like $4 per gallon oil, two wars we won’t end and can’t win, global warming, food shortages and price hikes, unprecedented species extinction, sub-prime mortgage failures, crumbling infrastructure, violent weather patterns and destructive earthquakes.
It’s time for all Americans to turn the page on the old politics and to start working on the new challenges we face in our world.
This article appeared in Common Dreams on June 10, 2008.
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