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Republican candor from the Right side of the political aisle is always refreshing to me because…it is usually always either so rare or so mistaken or so simply – - -not there!
And this because Santorum has got to be one of the most dangerous, narrow-minded, sanctimonious assholes coming out of a political party that has made the advancement of ignorance and stupidity its hallmark.
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Santorum’s statement could and likely may be considered a “gaffe” by some. We know he’s simply pandering to “the common man” and in that simple statement, reinforcing the “over-educated elite” Dems…the ones who care little about their constituency.
Republicans lack even the most basic common sense, if you’re poor and middle class, why fight for the rich who are hoarding their money and not putting it back into helping America’s economy by bringing back jobs?
Remember this comment from Santorum back in February of this year:
“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.”
That’s rich coming from Santorum, who has BA, MBA and JD degrees (President Obama has a BA and JD – no MBA); by his own standards, he’s over-educated himself. I don’t think it was a gaffe; he truly wants most people to have far less education than he does.
Republicans bandy about the term “elite” as a pejorative towards anyone they perceive as someone they can’t bamboozle with bullshit. The anti-intellectual streak in American culture is old and well-documented*. Santorum is very deliberately trying to alienate Democrats and liberals by painting them as intellectual snobs – isn’t that the same thing that Chairman Mao did to his political enemies during the Cultural Revolution? Of that event, this has been said:
“Many survivors and observers suggest that almost anyone with skills over that of the average person was made the target of political “struggle” in some way. According to most Western observers as well as followers of Deng Xiaoping, this led to almost an entire generation of inadequately educated individuals. “
Anti-intellectualism is often the tool of authoritarians and dictators, and was a hallmark of regimes such as the Italian Fascists, the Nazis, Stalinism and various theocracies ancient, medieval and modern. It probably reached its most extreme form under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, when people were executed for having a high school education or even for merely wearing glasses. Uneducated people lack the critical thinking skills that would make them less amenable to political control, which is the principal reason authoritarians oppose education for the masses – and the Republican Party of the US has demonstrated, over and over again, that it is nothing if not authoritarian.
*Richard Hofstadter.’s landmark book Anti-intellectualism in American Life was published in 1963 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964.
E. A. – Exactly. And that’s exactly what the dictators in the Mideast have done — kept their people misinformed and uneducated in order to maintain control over them. Tell them the US is the bad guy (and when we are, we simply reinforce what they’ve been told).
Now our uneducated fruit loops are dying for a Holy War so they can leave the rest of us behind while they fly off to never never land. And the idiots they vote into office will be happy to assist them.
Santorum’s statement could and likely may be considered a “gaffe” by some. We know he’s simply pandering to “the common man” and in that simple statement, reinforcing the “over-educated elite” Dems…the ones who care little about their constituency.
Meaningful? YES Purposeful?…YES again. Effective?…certainly.
Republicans lack even the most basic common sense, if you’re poor and middle class, why fight for the rich who are hoarding their money and not putting it back into helping America’s economy by bringing back jobs?
Remember this comment from Santorum back in February of this year:
That’s rich coming from Santorum, who has BA, MBA and JD degrees (President Obama has a BA and JD – no MBA); by his own standards, he’s over-educated himself. I don’t think it was a gaffe; he truly wants most people to have far less education than he does.
Republicans bandy about the term “elite” as a pejorative towards anyone they perceive as someone they can’t bamboozle with bullshit. The anti-intellectual streak in American culture is old and well-documented*. Santorum is very deliberately trying to alienate Democrats and liberals by painting them as intellectual snobs – isn’t that the same thing that Chairman Mao did to his political enemies during the Cultural Revolution? Of that event, this has been said:
Anti-intellectualism is often the tool of authoritarians and dictators, and was a hallmark of regimes such as the Italian Fascists, the Nazis, Stalinism and various theocracies ancient, medieval and modern. It probably reached its most extreme form under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, when people were executed for having a high school education or even for merely wearing glasses. Uneducated people lack the critical thinking skills that would make them less amenable to political control, which is the principal reason authoritarians oppose education for the masses – and the Republican Party of the US has demonstrated, over and over again, that it is nothing if not authoritarian.
*Richard Hofstadter.’s landmark book Anti-intellectualism in American Life was published in 1963 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964.
E. A. – Exactly. And that’s exactly what the dictators in the Mideast have done — kept their people misinformed and uneducated in order to maintain control over them. Tell them the US is the bad guy (and when we are, we simply reinforce what they’ve been told).
Now our uneducated fruit loops are dying for a Holy War so they can leave the rest of us behind while they fly off to never never land. And the idiots they vote into office will be happy to assist them.