I am genuinely curious about some of your statements. Can you give some examples of "prominent figures declaring their hatred for their own country"? And are all colleges expensive indoctrination camps? Or if not, which ones? Can you give some examples of how students are "taught a distorted vision of our history that diminishes and denigrates the great accomplishments of our founders and focuses obsessively on the shortcoming"?

I ask because I haven't seen reporting on any figure I would personally consider "prominent" saying he or she hated the US, and although I admittedly went to college a fairly long (20+ years) ago, I don't remember being "fed a single-viewpoint diet of opposition to the principles that made this country great." I'm curious about where this is happening and exactly what form it's taking.

Thanks.

- Victor

“And are all colleges expensive indoctrination camps? Or if not, which ones? Can you give some examples of how students are "taught a distorted vision of our history that diminishes and denigrates the great accomplishments of our founders and focuses obsessively on the shortcoming"?
... “and although I admittedly went to college a fairly long (20+ years) ago, I don't remember being "fed a single-viewpoint diet of opposition to the principles that made this country great."

~~ I graduated SUNY Purchase in 1992 with a BA in POL SCI . I had 2 Marxist professors including Prof. Peter Schwab, but nothing even resembling a conservative.

Schwab and an old Russian lady (another of my professors) bashed Reagan as a warmongering nuclear-war proponent and even the U.S.’s republican form of government. Gorbachev was their preference. An acquaintance of mine
mentioned Swedish grandparents favorably in the first class and had it
good with Prof. Schwab ever afterward, who only complained that
Sweden’s socialism did not go far enough. [Though my
classmate was a lazy hack, he earned a good mark.]
[I also remember the Russian professor claiming that the Rosenbergs were undeniably innocent.]

The professors made it known that the contemporary Gulf War was wrong and its true motives were oil and hegemony.

I recall other highlights from their courses including that Ayende of Chile was an assassination victim of the evil CIA, proving that wicked America would never allow the existence of a “pure Marxist” government which would actually help the people.

Our 1st course book was the outdated conspiratorial "Power Elite" -- asserting that Carnegies and Vanderbilts controlled American elections, rather than the people.
There was no balance or even moderation; nothing positive about America
except for strides made by radicals in the 1960s.

We were instructed in the POL SCI department at SUNY Purchase the tired liberal/
anti-American trope that rich white men instituted precisely the type of government that would to keep themselves in power, not for liberty and justice or any such.
In keeping, a third professor, a feminist lawyer -- who sponsored my senior paper -- instructed us in a political science law course, that original intent was impossible
to determine, and therefore “strict constructivists” were clearly buffoons.

At one point I was involved in a project demonstration, in Fall ‘91 or Spring ‘92, in which I drove another student to the Jacob Javits Center in nearby NYC, and he publically smashed a rather large glass-synthetic American flag in front of
about 100 onlookers.

I am now ashamed, and oh yes, it was distorted, anti-American indoctrination,
not even-handed education.