After years of plummeting enrollment and hand-wringing over the value of a law degree, interest in law school is starting to rebound. The number of people applying to law school for next fall is up nearly 12% compared with the same period a year earlier, and around 14% more applications have been submitted, according to the Law School Admission Council.The title hints that politics has triggered a new wave of snowflakes to study law. As we all know, the supple droids that graduate law school in 2021 will have the tools and authority to correct the political problems of 2016. They just will.
Why didn't we think of this sooner?
For years, legal academics have marched in lock-step with hippies, lesbians, and socialists, taking far-flung progressive positions to form a vital part of the mythical intellectual vanguard. That stereotype surely attracted a certain number of like-minded students (members of Antifa, you know), but not nearly enough recently to make up for the slanderous national conspiracy against premium lawyering and keep several schools from closing.
Instead, law professors should have gone full-hilt theocratic libertarian alt-right Nazi. Millenials, it seems, are more motivated by Twitter-fueled disgruntlement than the promise of untold riches. Demented weirdos, sure, but indubitably exploitable.
In the ignorant Obama years, no one had yet learned that the only way to keep America from descending into hyperbolic fascism is to send our youth to study West Coast Hotel v. Parrish. The biggest advertisement for law school isn't becoming a skilled professional making easy money. It's stoking the illusion of needed reform by letting the nation be run by barely competent alt-right goons for a few years.
It's one thing if you try telling students that motions in limine are important for parties to keep out problematic evidence. Yawn.
Instead, why don't you nominate a lifetime federal judge who doesn't know what a motion in limine is? That will outrage the little fuckers, plus everyone will think there's a shortage of trained experts who know what these complex and incredibly rare motions are. Now we need a Jedi army of thousands to learn about pre-trial motion practice and strike back.
12-14% is a good start, but we can do better. 25%? 50%? Let's make America great again by getting our law school output back to 2005.
Throwing around the word "Nazi" does little credit to you or your point. The idea of convincing gullible lemmings that they can be crusaders if they just sign some loan papers is one that needs serious and thoughtful attack. Don't undermine your cause with trite name-calling, especially with names that are so overused they have really become meaningless.
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