Saw an image on FB that's been burning me up all day.

[Bleacher Creature]

The idea that we make important policy decisions based on outward appearance and biased conclusions is preposterous, yet also perfectly consistent with how the GOP has been playing people for the past 40 years.

I don't know a thing about any of the people in these pictures. And frankly, it doesn't matter. This is a crass attempt to demonize people exercising free speech, and also perpetuates the idea that public assistance should only go to those who are "worthy."

It's sick and need to stop!

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[skylucy]

1. Facebook can be such a wasteland of stupidity.

[Bleacher Creature]

2. I know, and I normally don't take the bait.

It's just that it was presented in such a matter-of-fact, "non-political way," that really bothered me.

[csziggy]

3. Back in the 1960s when my sister was in college she met her future husband

At a Vietnam War protest. She was against the war, he was for it. He'd been raised as a military brat, had served in the Army in Southeast Asia (he does NOT talk about his time in the service) and was attending college on his GI benefits.

They got together to talk about their differences, hit it off and she converted him to being anti-war and a complete leftist. To this day the two of them attend protests on a regular basis - he could be in the background in a shot like the lower picture - but if he was of a different generation, he could have been one of the people in the upper one.

So that meme just does not reflect reality. The soldiers certainly deserve free college - but they could come home and be protestors once they are out of uniform. The First Amendment does not make a difference on who deserves free college.

I believe that every person deserves the education that allows them to make a living wage and to have a full life. And I believe that education should be free for everyone.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. My god...that could have been taken in 1968

which is sad, in one way
but good, in another.