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On Thursday night’s Finnerty program, independent journalist Kaitlin Bennett brought raw, unvarnished campus reporting to a national audience, walking viewers through the disturbing results of her on-the-ground interviews with college kids about voter ID and the crisis in Iran. Bennett didn’t sugarcoat what she found, and she used the platform to force a conversation that the liberal media would rather sweep under the rug.
The clips Bennett posted show the kind of vapid, ahistorical answers that conservatives have been warning about for years — students expressing bewildering opinions such as praising Iran or saying they’d relocate there because they believe it’s better for women. Those videos went viral because they exposed a problem that textbooks and campus talking points try to conceal: many young people on elite campuses are more indoctrinated than educated.
Kaitlin’s blunt conclusion — that far too many college students are simply not thinking — is the truth we need to hear, painful though it may be for the higher-ed establishment. Conservatives should applaud anyone brave enough to hold mirror to these campuses and say aloud what parents and taxpayers already suspect: universities are failing their basic mission of teaching critical thinking. There is nothing unpatriotic about calling out a broken system; on the contrary, it’s an act of love for this country and for the young people being betrayed.
If these interviews stunned you, they should have. For years the left has treated our colleges like factories for compliant voters rather than places that teach the fine art of rigorous debate and real history. The result is a generation raised more on grievance and slogans than on civic literacy and self-reliance — a perfect recruitment pool for radicals and foreign apologists who want to weaken America from within.
The conversation about voter ID that Bennett raised on Finnerty is especially important because it goes straight to who we trust with the franchise. When students can’t explain the basics of citizenship and voting but will happily echo talking points against ID requirements, it proves the urgency of common-sense reforms to protect our elections. America should insist on secure, transparent voting rules and stop allowing ignorance to be weaponized against the rule of law.
This is not a time for hand-wringing or meek apologies from conservatives; it’s a time for action. Defend parental rights, demand accountability from university trustees, and support candidates who will stop funding woke departments that push political litmus tests in place of real learning. If taxpayers are paying for colleges, taxpayers deserve classes that actually prepare students to be citizens — not activists in training.
Hardworking Americans know what’s at stake: the future of a free republic where truth matters and where loyalty to country comes before fashionable ideologies. Kaitlin Bennett did the job the mainstream press won’t — she held a camera up to our campuses and showed us the rot. Now it’s time for patriots to answer that call, to rebuild institutions that produce thinkers, workers, and defenders of liberty instead of pliant foot soldiers for a dangerous, anti-American agenda.
