Coming to grips with Republicans Anti-Intellectualism (9/11, Iraq, drugs, nuclear)

[Whyte Byrd]

LOL Well if being an intellectual means being in denial about the mistakes your political party has made, as well as blaming others for all the negative but accepting credit for the positive, believing anyone who doesn't think just like you can't be as good as you, being more loyal to political party than country, and thinking you're the only possible solution to the nation's problems, you can have it all to yourself. To the rest of us, integrity, unity, and country first are the priorities. But do keep your little intellectual suits nice and pressed so you look good to each other at least, and see how far that gets you when your elected intellectuals start breaking your heart.

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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.

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Originally Posted by 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."

Exactly! This is why liberal ideas flourish in academia which is insulated from the harmful effects when these ideas are actually implemented in society!

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Originally Posted by MiamiRob

sorry but there is nothing "intellectual" about a Conservative and the label reflects that. What do you think a conservative means? Status Quo and there is nothing progressive about that.
Padcrasher the US is starting to look more like the Taliban in Afghanistan than the Founding fathers who founded this nation.

Ha! It is the liberals who cry against any efforts to improve public education since they are only interested in preserving the status quo of our current broken system. Conservatives have proposed strategies that are aimed at giving parents more options such as vouchers which goes against the status quo. This is just one example of how libs like to preserve the status quo.

[Guero]

Wow.

Professors are mad scientists, unwittingly unleashing horrors upon society.

Good grief, am I trapped in an old Underdog episode?

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” --T.S. Eliot

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Originally Posted by mackinac81

I've thought about this too. I've always considered myself a conservative, but I work in the public school system. And I've been amazed at the number of conservatives who want to get rid of public schools, who trash my profession as useless, and don't have a high view of education. Many (not all) equate "Educated" with "Liberal/Leftist/Anti-God" Sure, most profs and teachers are probably to the left, but that doesn't mean that education itself leads to liberalism. That's idea's just dangerous. Being educated is good.

Both regular folks and intellectuals are good people, and both are needed in society, but it seems that many conservatives--the ones who really speak for the movement--don't place any value on higher education, which might explain why they thought the Obamas didn't achieve anything, despite making it to ivy league schools from humble beginnings. No, that's not achievement, it's not worth noting

Conservatives complain against public education because IT AIN'T WORKING! Our children are graduating from high school not knowing how to read or do math! The public education system has become nothing more than liberal indoctrination camps! We need to get our children back to the basics of learning and teach them how to think for themselves instead of being fed liberal dogma!

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Originally Posted by mike from back east

okay, have it your way. Should you ever need open heart surgery, please avoid university-trained medical intellectuals and take your sick ass to joe the plumber and let him take a hammer and chisel to your chest.

rotfl!

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Originally Posted by TomDot

Since you seem to have a reading comprehension problem I will reiterate.
Why should I respect a professor's point of view more than I respect anyone else's point of view?

Did you go to college? Is this how you were taught to think critically.

Exactly!

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Originally Posted by andreabeth

Now this is the most amazing thing...................who do you think has had control of the American education system that has produced all these unspeakably dumb people over the past several decades? Hint: it is not the conservatives. The liberals are mainly responsible for the trashing our once world class public education system with their harebrained schemes such as Whole Language, New Math, social promotions and dumping classes like Government and Civics in favor of Cultural Sensitivity and revisionist history. You want to know why so many people today have no clue about much of anything? Go look in the mirror.

Thank you! And who wants to preserve the status quo when it comes to the sorry state of our public education system. It ain't the conservatives!

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Originally Posted by stephanieuk

Yeah....professors/liberals are good for recalling exact details of history (though likely distorted through liberal bias) but yet don't function very well without the hate they sling about how awful Americans are and how corrupted our gov. has been, but see here is the difference.....Republicans live in the now (with taking into account where we've been and what we've been through). Liberals argue about exact words, they sue people for upsetting them and hurting their feelings. Rupublicans are common sense people, who dont think that we live in an awful place...or that our gov. would try to kill us, or dream of a million conspiracy theorys. Republicans are the ones that can get things done instead of talking about them.

So......heres to the cheerleaders, the football players, the basketball players, the normal, the people who aren't misfits, the business people, the police, the military, the boaters, the people who like Amercia and are happy to live here, the people that don't think visiting "abroad" is the coolest thing ever, the people who don't give a damn about water boarding an admitted terrorist if it will save lives, the people who think life is not about reading a history book in a dirty old coffee shop is a way of life, the people who think they have a right to make their own rules, the people who think welfare is a helping hand-not a paycheck, the people who know that there are people in the world that don't want "to talk", the people who know why we are free-and what we had to do to be free, the people who know the term perserverance and not only the definition out of a text book-but what it means at the end of a long day, to the people who have big hearts- but expect that you help yourself as much as they help you, to the people that have a life outside of books, to the people who enjoying working out and being clean cut......

Here's to the RUPUBLICANS.....!!!!*****

Awesome Post!