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and I'm a liberal Democrat. :dem:
The points that you make are not exclusive to one political point of view as you infer.

Education is an area Democrats support more than Republicans and the public generally give Democrats higher ranking on the issue. Republicans seek to stifle education by privatizing it and eventually turning it into an unregulated market where the lower class gets the cheapest education.

I've seen one sided political commentary from right wing professors and I've challenged them. While there are professors that do exhibit a political bias and preach it in a classroom, IMHO, they are in the minority. Much of what y'all refer to as "one sided political commentary" are professors challenging students to look at other sides of an issue. It's called developing critical thinking skills and is something that the US educational system used to excel at until the Repubs started turning education into a memorize and regurgitate format. Critical thinking skills lead to innovative ideas which is something the US used to lead in and still can if we turn from the current direction.

Many Democrats pray and attend Church too. We just don't believe in converting our secular government into a theocracy. The Repubs insistence that Creationism be taught in schools is a case in point. IMHO, religion and philosophy are the opposite sides of the coin from science. Science answers concrete questions on how an event occurs, religion and philosophy answers the "whys" that are not testable under science. Questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" are testable from a philosophical point of view and not scientific. Therefore science and religion complement each other but should not be combined.

Some kids are getting an holding jobs. The unemployment rate among the recent college and high school grads is one of the highest in recent years. Entry level jobs at decent wages are hard to find. You can thank the Bush economy for that.

Of course Democrats support the military and its members. We support them more because we don't believe they should be put at unnecessary risks such as sending them to Iraq for a war fought for unclear reasons other than Bush's ego. We also support veteran's benefits at a time when Repubs are playing politics with them.

This is why Kerry has the majority of support among young people while Bush is losing support so I'd definitely say that young people in college are waking up.