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doxydad

(1,363 posts) Thu May 22, 2014, 06:59 AM May 2014

What Conservatives Fear Most Is a Well Educated America

Conservatives are terrified of a well-educated populace, and for over a year the terror du jour is Common Core that the great majority of conservative Christian fear-mongers have little-to-no comprehension of what it entails. However, what they think they know is that because it was introduced while the Black man is President, it must be another inherently evil plot to transform their children into homosexuals, radical feminists, Nazis, Socialists, and mindless zombies. Conservative Christian children are already mindless zombies being taught that Stone Age humans kept and rode flesh-eating dinosaurs just prior to loading them onto a wooden ship to ride out a 40-day flood when Old Testament god exterminated all life on planet Earth; save Noah and his immediate family, but that is another story.

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What Conservatives Fear Most Is a Well Educated America (Original Post) doxydad May 2014 OP

A new future always starts with thinking about what could be. CincyDem May 2014 #1

It is much easier to sway the dumb population with propaganda liberal N proud May 2014 #2

by Common Core I would say many dems also Puzzledtraveller May 2014 #3

Well said, doxydad! Octafish May 2014 #4

So far in our nation's history they've had nothing to worry about. Orrex May 2014 #5

CincyDem

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1. A new future always starts with thinking about what could be.

Reply to doxydad (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2014, 07:14 AM

May 2014

If conservatives can shut down how we can envision a new future, they can shut down how we create a new future.

Dumbing down the population reduces the likelihood of a great thinker rising up to create those new possibilities. Possibilities that might realign the status quo in a way that shifts the power balance. That shift, even in it's subtlest measure, is what conservatives want to avoid at all cost. White privilege, wealth privilege, generational privilege...are all at risk to new ideas.

A conservative tactic has always been to "kill a new idea when it's young". This goes even futher...intellectually "sterilize" the population so that new ideas can't even be born. That's the ultimate way to hold on the whatever privilege(s) exists for these folks.