Is American Higher Education Undermining Our Founding Values

Despite claims of supporting academic freedom, most American colleges and universities are inherently hostile to students who support Constitutional values. Cancel culture reigns supreme in such U.S. institutions of higher learning, and you would be hard-pressed to encounter any student who would dare vocalize their support for “The” FourG Nation principles of GOD (truth), Guns (Constitutional rights), and Glory (freedom), or similar traditional values.

Instead of teaching critical thinking skills and the American ideals of liberty, reason, and individual rights, most American universities are rewriting our history and indoctrinating students with left-wing and outright Marxist ideological tenets, as evidenced by these commonly referenced campus movements and catchphrases:

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
• Intersectionality
• Cultural appropriation
• Decolonization
• Patriarchy
• Toxic masculinity
• Climate justice
• Check your privilege
• Dismantle the system (capitalism, policing, borders, etc.)
• Cisheteronormativity

The Original Role of Higher Education

Our Founding Fathers helped establish many of our oldest and most elite

colleges and universities, such as Harvard, Yale, William & Mary, and the University of Pennsylvania, to be beacons of reason and science, and to cultivate civic virtue, moral clarity, and independent thought in their students. Classical liberalism and our Constitution were once a core focus of student body learning, whereas they are now considered controversial topics.

How Universities Have Drifted

Radical activism emerged on campuses in the 1960s, with adherents who initially celebrated open debate as a means of fostering support for their ideals. However, as their beliefs became more mainstream and ingrained on campus, university activists strived to curtail debate on them. Good luck having an open, good-faith, on-campus debate today on issues like climate change, gun control, Christianity, or American exceptionalism.

Activist campus administrators, professors, and students typically work in concert to stifle any opinions that counter their narratives, which support their ideologies. Instead of helping students seek truth by teaching critical thinking skills, many professors today indoctrinate their students with harmful ideologies.

Impact on Students and the Nation

The current ideological indoctrination on college campuses is creating a generation of students who reject American ideals, traditional values, and the exceptionalism that makes our country great. With a distinct lack of critical thinking skills, such students are trapped in an echo chamber and unwilling to even consider commonsense viewpoints. This explains in large part the past decade’s rapid rise in younger generation support for socialism, decolonization, gender ideology, the Green New Deal, DEI, and other left-wing movements that older generations find confounding, at best.

While conservatives are willing to debate any issue, indoctrinated students play a zero-sum game that relies on shutting down debate. Because this generation of far leftists has grown so large, mainstream Democrats are having to embrace many of their extreme ideals to maintain their power base. Absent their far left wing, the Democrats will undoubtedly lose more seats in Congress and fail to recapture the White House in 2028. Thus, as the Democrats continue to move more to the left, the divisive rift between them and the Republicans grows ever wider.

How President Trump Is Fighting Back

Despite the massive endowments held by many elite colleges and universities, they have long relied on taxpayer dollars to maintain their growth. However, President Donald Trump has laid down the gauntlet by threatening to withhold federal funding from U.S. universities unless they start making changes to their left-wing programming and policies. In his opening salvo against targeted universities, President Trump criticized them for promoting “woke” ideologies, and said his goal is to restore “common sense” through merit-based admissions, removing DEI quotas, and protecting women’s sports.  

What Can You Do?

As a member of FourG Nation, this higher education bias against Constitutional values and American traditions should concern you. To help restore academic freedom and balance, there are several things you can do, including:

• Know what your college-age children are being taught by asking questions and reading syllabi.
• Consider and support higher education alternatives, such as trade schools, Christian colleges, or institutions that teach under classical education models.
• Support President Trump and other politicians who are holding universities to account for their left-wing biases and lack of academic freedom. Join FourG Media in supporting all efforts to return education to its true purpose of teaching truth, virtue, and liberty.