Gotta admit that Free Speech isn’t truly “Free” as decades roll by especially in today’s volatile world. Make a statement on Social Media and keyboard bravery comes out in all walks of life. Stand in a Park to speak about awareness of this or that and the opposition comes out behind the trees to scream in your face. It’s the quiet in Free Speech people over look.
Only the loudest make the 30 second spot in the Media and only the violent/destructive get a few days of notice. But the louder you scream, the harder you throw rocks, the silence of your cause rolls in as people turn their backs- PB/TK
Meet the conservative student activist who wants to ‘make campus great again’ – By Emanuella Grinberg April 18 2017
It was standing room only as Lauren Cooley stepped in front of a classroom of college Republicans on a recent Saturday afternoon at the University of Central Florida’s main campus.
The 24-year-old campus organizer and University of Miami graduate student was kicking off her “Make Campus Great Again” speaking tour, an effort to motivate conservative students to embrace political activism.
“I know you guys worked really, really hard to make America great again, and we won! That’s awesome!” she told the crowd of students in navy blazers and brogues, sheath dresses and patent leather pumps, and a few red “
Make American Great Again” hats.
“Now Trump’s in his first 100 days, what can we do to help the new administration move forward?”
During the 2016 election, Cooley traveled around Florida training activists and knocking on dorm room doors to register student voters. She had founded a political action committee that year called Campus Red, and appeared as a guest representing millennial conservatives on outlets such as Fusion TV and One America News Network.
She continues to write for right-leaning media and to speak on conservative television and radio, usually as the youngest panelist and the only woman. In a
recent appearance on The Glenn Beck Program, Cooley described herself as a conservative first and a Republican second. She said she believes there are others like her on college campuses, students who fall between the left and alt-right, who are looking for their people.
With millennial and Generation X adults
poised to outnumber baby boomers in 2020, Cooley sees a niche market waiting to be tapped on college campuses. From
2012 to
2016, the 18-29 vote held steady in Florida. And while the Democratic advantage declined in the state by 12 points from President Obama to Hillary Clinton, Trump performed better than Mitt Romney, according to exit poll data.
