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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think OP has a good question. My British husband came to the US for ugrad and was amazed at how in-your-face the student Democrat groupies were. They couldn't answer basic questions on economic policy or civics but boy did they like to do political marketing.  
He and the other foreign students also noticed the strong biasedness with the professors, a left-leaning one.

If you find a nonjudgmental, non brainwashed groupie school, do share!  Otherwise go abroad![/quote]

Good luck finding a "non brainwashed groupie" school in Europe! I spent my junior year in probably the most staid European country, and there were actual COMMUNISTS (gasp!) and ANARCHISTS (gasp!!) in every single class I took. Not the type of lefty that you guys incorrectly dismiss as "commies," but the real deal.  Come to think of it, I can't remember a single conservative student in my classes there.

But anyway. If you and your DH are confusing social issues (redistribution, choice, affirmative action) with "political marketing," then you've got bigger problems. There are different types of issues in politics. Some are purely economic (does lowering taxes increase economic output -- oh wait, Mitch McConnell killed that study). Others are outside of economics, like affirmative action, or whether there is moral value (apart from economic consequences) in taxing the rich to give to the poor. In these types of issues, you decide between moral consequences and economic consequences, and this is totally different from simple "political marketing." I say this as economist from a top-3 business school.
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