Coming to grips with Republicans Anti-Intellectualism (multiculturalism, thought, democratic, liberals)

[Repubocrat]

Very interesting article about anti intellectualism in the Republican party. I could not agree more! Ignorance and anti-intellectualism have become the trademarks of the GOP.


The Washington Monthly

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

Very interesting article about anti intellectualism in the Republican party. I could not agree more! Ignorance and anti-intellectualism have become the trademarks of the GOP.


The Washington Monthly

I really need to come to grips with the intolerance of the libs and lefties.

[jps-teacher]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

Very interesting article about anti intellectualism in the Republican party. I could not agree more! Ignorance and anti-intellectualism have become the trademarks of the GOP.


The Washington Monthly

The Lilla piece referred to and borrowed from is worth a read in its entirety.

[padcrasher]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

Very interesting article about anti intellectualism in the Republican party. I could not agree more! Ignorance and anti-intellectualism have become the trademarks of the GOP.


The Washington Monthly

Yes, only in America is being a Professor a bad thing. The World over if you are a professor, you are highly respected.

That's how bad it is here. ( And sign of a society/nation on the decline)

AM radio right wing hate talk provides the "thinking" for Millions of right wing lemmings.

[Repubocrat]

Our local Conservative talk show host Jason Lewis said that we should oppose PeaceCorps because they are "Liberal socialist indoctrination camps". It seems like volunteering your time to help improve somebody else's lives is frowned upon by some Conservatives. According to him, "PeaceCorps members engage in "liberal projects" I guess, teaching business skills and self-sufficiency to the less privileged is not a positive thing in their eyes.

[Guero]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

Our local Conservative talk show host Jason Lewis said that we should oppose PeaceCorps because they are "Liberal socialist indoctrination camps". It seems like volunteering your time to help improve somebody else's lives is frowned upon by some Conservatives. According to him, "PeaceCorps members engage in "liberal projects" I guess, teaching business skills and self-sufficiency to the less privileged is not a positive thing in their eyes.

Lewis is a toad. I was so glad when my old room-mate moved out of here. He had a ritual of standing in the kitchen, getting drunk, and listening to Lewis while talking smack about liberals. Of course he knew his landlords (us) were fairly liberal, so this was just one of his passive-aggressive ways of dealing with his anger at us (or more likely - anger at himself - redirected at us).

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

Our local Conservative talk show host Jason Lewis said that we should oppose PeaceCorps because they are "Liberal socialist indoctrination camps". It seems like volunteering your time to help improve somebody else's lives is frowned upon by some Conservatives. According to him, "PeaceCorps members engage in "liberal projects" I guess, teaching business skills and self-sufficiency to the less privileged is not a positive thing in their eyes.

It all depends on how you do it. The Devil is always in the details. Involuntary indoctrination is a liberal standard because the values of these folks are out of step with ordinary Americans and fly in the face of rational thought. The public school system is, and always has been, ground zero for the lefty loons and their twisted logic because the adult mind will call them on it every time. So vouchers are out of the question for the next two years. This too shall pass.

[kidicarus89]

Originally Posted by momonkey

It all depends on how you do it. The Devil is always in the details. Involuntary indoctrination is a liberal standard because the values of these folks are out of step with ordinary Americans and fly in the face of rational thought. The public school system is, and always has been, ground zero for the lefty loons and their twisted logic because the adult mind will call them on it every time. So vouchers are out of the question for the next two years. This too shall pass.

Could you enlighten us, if you will, how PeaceCorps projects utilize involuntary indoctrination?

[OC Investor2]

Originally Posted by padcrasher

Yes, only in America is being a Professor a bad thing. The World over if you are a professor, you are highly respected.

That's how bad it is here. ( And sign of a society/nation on the decline)

AM radio right wing hate talk provides the "thinking" for Millions of right wing lemmings.

Perhaps the Intellectual classes deserve some of the contempt. As the Lilla peice points out:

" In 1976 Irving Kristol publicly worried that "populist paranoia" was "subverting the very institutions and authorities that the democratic republic laboriously creates for the purpose of orderly self-government." But by the mid-'80s, he was telling readers of this newspaper that the "common sense" of ordinary Americans on matters like crime and education had been betrayed by "our disoriented elites,"

Conservatives have recognized the loss of intellectual rigor & integrity brought about by multiculturalism & political correctness. Intellectual bastions like the university, arts and press all bow the deepest at these alters. Once pursuit of the truth was subjugated to political correctness, the game changed & was rigged against the conservatives. They have recognized this and these institutions have lost their authority because of it.

So maybe if the professors & the press did a better job of policing themselves, they would'nt have lost the respect of large chunks of the population. The intellectual class would have maintained the voice of authority and not left themselves so open to having their motives or intentions questioned everytime they introduce a new or different idea. They produced the vaccum, and all kinds of interests - commercail, political, media - have moved in to fill it.

You're right, it's not a good thing, but the conservatives did'nt start it, they just reacted to it.

[Widowmaker2k]

There are plenty of conservative intellectuals, but you wouldn't know it amongst the multitudes of left leaning 'professors' and students. Thomas Sowell (himself an intellectual, and a senior of the Hoover Institution of Stanford University) does a good job providing a possible explanation about for this:

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."