Saturday, January 17, 2026

Nobody Wants to Study Politics Since Trump

"I sometimes feel embarrassed to walk into my political science classrooms. The students that I'm talking to, this is their whole conscious adult life. College freshmen right now were 8 years old when Trump walked down the escalator. And so their whole conscious experience of politics as a sentient, quasi-adult human is this nightmare politics that never ends. People don't necessarily want to study politics under those conditions, and I can't blame them." -- political scientist David Faris

Posted by retort at 01:46 PM | 16 COMMENTS | permalink

Comments

And now everyone wants to study abnormal psychology.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-17 01:52 PM

And now everyone wants to study abnormal psychology.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-17 01:52 PM | Reply | Flag: Quip of the Week

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-17 02:06 PM

Nobody Wants to Study Politics Since Trump

No more political science majors?!?!? Does this mean I'm gonna have to pour my own coffee at Starbucks?!?

#3 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-17 05:20 PM

It means Might Makes Right, and "Community Organizers" get sent to Gulag.

Every child who grew up in a home where the father says, in my house you live by my rules, already understands it.

"In this house, Columbus is a hero, end of story!"

Don't need no fancy "political science" degree to figure out how that works.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-17 05:30 PM

#3

It means you'll have to represent yourself in court, dumbass.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-17 05:44 PM

It means you'll have to represent yourself in court, dumbass.
#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

I believe you have a typo in there.

#6 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-17 07:10 PM

"Community Organizers" get sent to Gulag.
~ Snoofy

"Community Organizers" get setup to commit fraud.

Obama was the ultimate leader, he showed how community organizers can pullin Billions from the government via NGOs.

The people running the NGO's are the top5% of earners in the US.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-17 07:31 PM

#7

#71 New York Penal Law 175.10 is made-up?

Sorry, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut.

The law isn't subject to your whimsical fantasies.

#76 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-10 06:46 PM

Then ...
The law isn't subject to your whimsical fantasies.
#76 | Posted by A_Friend

Increasing it to a felony is Federal jurisdiction.

#79 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-10 06:49 PM

Then...
#79 That is, of course, a lie.

#83 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-10 06:51 PM

Then ...
#79

New York Penal Law 175.10 defines Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, a Class E Felony, which occurs when someone commits the misdemeanor of falsifying business records (NYPL 175.05) with an additional intent to defraud, which includes intending to commit another crime or to aid/conceal another crime's commission, escalating the charge from a misdemeanor to a felony, as seen in cases involving financial fraud or covering up underlying illegal acts.

Gosh, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut, I don't see anywhere in there about the Federal government.

Care to point it out, liar?

#87 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-10 07:00 PM

No answer (so far).

As expected from a coward.

#8 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-17 08:24 PM

If I had it to do over again, I would have gone to college to study things I want to learn about, and not worry about the remuneration factor. Life is so damn short...

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-01-18 08:14 AM

If I had it to do over again, I would have gone to college to study things I want to learn about, and not worry about the remuneration factor. Life is so damn short...

#9 | Posted by Hughmass

If all men were as wise as you, we would live in a utopia.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-18 08:53 AM

I meet people who are pursuing university degrees in things like Supply Chain Management.

Good for them, and I'm sure they will get a job.

But there are missing out. They should also have a dual major with something like History or Philosophy.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-18 08:55 AM

"I would have gone to college to study things I want to learn about ... "

I went to college under the old GI Bill. The money would keep coming as long as you stayed in school and carried 12 units. Four of which could be "work study". If you got a degree then the money the money stopped. So I changed majors each time just before I would "graduate". Never did get a "degree" in anything. For ten+ years. It was awesome. Could study anything I wanted. All while advancing in my chosen career in computer science. I actually wish I had studied more politics now as everything seems political or political related somehow these days.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-18 09:21 AM

There are not many left in the US, maybe none today, but once America had colleges where the curriculum was strictly reading classical literature and history books. (No karate, basket weaving like what Sheridan Bouquet studied, accounting, football, economics, pre-med/pre-law, engineering, etc).

Called the "Great Books Colleges," classes were small and students read the Greek and Roman classics, philosophy, Shakespeare, history books, Charles Dickens, French and Russian novelists, in order to learn the lessons hidden in those gems. Seniors were assigned as tutors to guide the juniors that needed help.

In terms of practicality for a career, the capitalist system would not know where or how to place these graduates.

However when their tassels are finally turned from right to left at graduation, these alumni would be quite literate and learned at the tender of 21, 22, or 23.

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-18 09:44 AM

It means you'll have to represent yourself in court, dumbass.
#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Can you imagine a world without lawyers!?!

World-Without-Lawyers

#14 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-19 10:13 AM

A world without lawyers would be a world of Arbitrary Detentions, State Oppression, Unenforceable Contracts,in word; PALESTINE....

---- YOURSELF Censored.

#15 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-19 10:38 AM

#12 Everything was Always Political. You just didn't notice.

Most people don't.

#16 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-19 10:42 AM

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