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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:04 PM
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the tea bags seem proud to be undereducated

which is a problem.

we have a bunch of proudly undereducated, blindly religious people being herded together to become a force to be used by the neo cons.

so how can they be unherded?
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hewitt Donating Member (138 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:11 PM
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1. Palin is proud of her ignorance
After watching clips of her speech last night, I reaffirmed by belief that she is one scary "populist," whose platitudes and Obama-bashing fail to cover her deep pride in her profound ignorance. An ignorant person who believes she is sent from God to reform the world is a dangerous person. How could anyone take her seriously. She writes notes on her hand like a 13 year old!
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:12 PM
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2. I worked with a woman who explained that mind set to me.
Book smart only takes you so far. Doesn't make you intelligent.

Street smart is common sense and intelligence. Trumps book smart.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:16 PM
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5. Except that the foot soldiers in this group are neither...
and they just revel in their defensive position.
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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:35 PM
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13. But these people are book stupid AND street stupid.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 02:24 PM
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16. Their Huge Problem is..
they don't have the commone sense thing, either.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:13 PM
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3. They know what they know...facts are just fancy talk from...
high falutin' liberal socialist professors.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 02:33 PM
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17. Facts are meaningless. It's their OPINION that trumps all else
Opinions don't have to be based on anything at all. Truth, facts, reality, none of these count for much. And they think God's on their side right or wrong. Facts just serve to confuse them and are the tools of their enemy. Why would they bother with them?
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:16 PM
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4. Education
Edited on Sun Feb-07-10 12:18 PM by BOSSHOG
would turn them away from a conservative party. Here in Mississippi we are number one in high school dropout rate, number one in teen pregnancy, number one in obesity and we are about the reddest state in the country and everybody's happy and everybody has conservative values and everybody votes for the republicans. Dare I say its because lack of education. Who in Mississippi can disagree?
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 02:43 PM
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18. What's to disagree with? Free market at work down there! Mission accomplished!
Now if only the Republicans could use that success story as a template to be carried out throughout the country!

:sarcasm:
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:34 PM
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6. Today's "Know Nothing" party"
The impulse has been in American politics forever.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:35 PM
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7. oops.. accidently unrec'd.. someone fix?. . . .n/t
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:59 PM
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8. I fixed
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LatteLibertine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:08 PM
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9. I have a problem with willful ignorance
Edited on Sun Feb-07-10 01:10 PM by LatteLibertine
I've met plenty of poor folks in my life who have very average educations who are nothing like the members of the Tea Party.

The bulk of the Tea Party crowd are a dying breed and seem more than they are due to overexposure.
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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:13 PM
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10. The neocons don't like Palin and her ilk.
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:26 PM
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11. It's not so much about education as it is
a complete and utter lack of intellectual curiosity.
It wouldn't be such a big deal if it weren't coupled with their constant demands to be "right" all the time and anger when confronted with facts of any kind. It's much worse than being proud of being undereducated. They're proud to be stupid.
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:34 PM
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12. they only believe in their own experiences,
or what their parents told them. Authority is not to be trusted. And that includes educators. Sad, really. They see themselves as separate from the great "They" who are in authority over them.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-08-10 11:59 AM
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22. I'm old, when I was in elem. sch. my father said teachers weren't born


they were found under rocks. I was horrified he said that because I liked my teachers. I knew he was joking but I also understood he didn't like teachers.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:41 PM
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14. There has always been a core group of ignorant and many times racist people in the US.
Edited on Sun Feb-07-10 01:41 PM by Jennicut
It is nothing really all that new. They remind me of the KKK and later the militia groups.
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MonkeyMama Donating Member (41 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 02:21 PM
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15. A whole lot of stupid is required to house that much hate.
People who can't think for themselves can be motivated by hate. I think it might be too late for most of them.
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 04:10 PM
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19. Redneck Republicans have always been proud of their ignorance.
Which just proves how ignorant they truly are.
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Snarkoleptic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 06:44 PM
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20. Here are two graphs, one of which appears to have been plagiarized by Rahm.

http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-08-10 11:54 AM
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21. Jesus didn't have no degree.
Just sayin'...
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-08-10 12:00 PM
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23. silly talk
nt
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