In 2017, We Are Governed by Privileged Frat Boys

[MineralMan]

Most of us who attended a college remember Fraternity Row and its tendency to consider itself the heart of the college, even though fraternity members were far outnumbered by other students who weren't interested in such organizations at all. A lot of those old fraternity boys go on to become corporate leaders and politicians. It's in their blood, really.

As they move on in life, they maintain some of that old self-centered groupism that fraternities celebrate. They know they're the very best of the best, because they've been telling themselves that for decades. They know they're right, because all of their buddies tell them they are right. They just disregard the rest of the population, because...well...those people are not like them.

In 2017, the frat boys are in power in Congress. They've managed to win their elections, just as they did back in their frat boy days. Their friends voted for them, and the rest of the student body wasn't all that interested in student government. The frats had the best parties, got the "best girls" and kept their ugly secrets well hidden.

Well, folks, it's time for the majority of the student body to say NO! to the frat boys. We need to have had enough of that late adolescent nonsense and insist on serious, thoughtful people doing the job of running government, if we're not willing to do it. It's time for the partying, self-centered bully boys to lose. Aren't we tired of them yet? Aren't we ready to call them out for what they are?

Let's shut down the frats, OK?

[rzemanfl]

1. K&R to the greatest page this goes. n/t

[dalton99a]

2. Privileged, indeed. Norms and rules don't apply to them

[trof]

3. Delta Kappa Epsilon, class of '63.

For me, it was a phase.
I pretty much left it behind when I left college.
Much of it seems pretty juvenile now.
I did enjoy the parties and social life and it was a pretty good bunch of guys to hang out with.

I don't really have any close friends from that time now.
As I said, it was a phase.

I will say that from what I read online and in the news, the current group of brothers, at least Dekes at my old alma mater, are much more (not court ordered concerned with community service than we ever were.
Just my 2 cents.

As far as the current crop of pols goes, I think it's more arrested development than anything else. These folks just never finished growing up.

[Hoyt]

4. Where I went, I avoided Fraternity Row -- too many white wing confederate flag waving A-holes, who

I am sure would have been Young Republicans, except back then those jerks were often Dixiecrats.

Agree with shut down the frats.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Hear, hear!

I was a Kappa Kappa Gamma in college, but sororities never had the bad rap that frats did. We may have been a little wild, but we did charitable works in the community and were basically harmless. The frats, not so much. They were hotbeds of drunkenness and misogyny.