<p>I recently read that the Young Republicans outnumber the Young Democrats. At the gathering I attended, there were a bunch of conservatives on stage. Are liberals really outnumbered? The city of Berkeley is one of the most liberal in the country. Has the UC become the conservative center for the area?</p>
<p>no, minorities need to huddle together, so that they keep in contact.</p>
<p>Liberals (like myself) do not need large clubs in the same way as conservatives do to be able to stick together.</p>
<p>Berkeley is very liberal and one time I read a Berkeley.edu news article stating that modern Cal students are more liberal than FSMovement Cal students.</p>
<p>I have noticed this in society, too. Liberals are constantly splitting into different groups and disagreeing on the little issues, instead of uniting - except to get rid of Bush. It’s probably because the liberals are more intellectual and the conservatives are usually reactionary. I wonder if that comment will push come conservative buttons and I’ll get a bunch of conservatives on my case, here. The conservative talk at last Saturday’s event was scaring me a little and I guess that it’s just that a lot of conservative alumni showed up.</p>
<p>well it is not so much about democratic unity. It is because the Bay Area (except Solano County, which voted for Prop 8) is extremely liberal and hence there is a really large liberal population.</p>
<p>im not political active. o.O</p>
<p>So what was Saturday’s event and what was said that was scaring you?</p>
<p>im not scared of cal day lol</p>
<p>A bunch of mostly conservative business and economic students paraded onto the stage at the event in my county. One bragged about how he was responsible for the conservative counter-culture. I don’t recall seeing any humanities or arts majors.</p>
<p>I’m a conservative student at Cal (I’m also a veteran…which I guess makes me a right wing extremist. Boo!). The only time I hear of anything political is walking through Sproul and seeing the tables set up for the respective political groups and that’s pretty much it. Rarely I will see comments here (like in this thread) or in the comments on the Daily Cal site.</p>
<p>I doubt that Cal students today are more liberal than back during the FSM. I think Cal is as liberal as any other university, which is standard, but I’ve seen examples of far more liberal “activism” (?) at other universities as of late.</p>
<p>My take is that the changing demographic of the student population here at Cal has a lot to do with it. The predominant ethnicity on campus today is one that is generally pretty reserved (there are always exceptions). </p>
<p>UC Berkeley is still liberal, as is any other university in America, but its radical history is just that…history.</p>