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Deciphering Right-Wing Code-What Conservatives Are Really Saying When They Seem to Spew Nonsense
"Following the War on Public Employees and the War on Women, this will be the summer of the War on Public Universities. Whether the proposals will be to revoke their charters, close campuses, or sell off their facilities to for-profit colleges, you can bet that ALEC already has the bills in the can, and will be introducing them in state legislatures presently."
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Deciphering Right-Wing Code-What Conservatives Are Really Saying When They Seem to Spew Nonsense (Original Post)
Va Lefty
Apr 2012
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)2. Conservatives advocate ignorance. And, it appears that they have no trouble finding "buyers".nt
Mosaic
(1,451 posts)3. I have no need to decipher the ideas of cowards
Let the babies speak in code, it's gibberish and should be treated as such by the mainstream.
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)4. Reagan was successful at convincing people that it's OK to be stupid.
As history will demonstrate, Reagan was wrong.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)5. Then, every time they say "public", I will insist they said "pubic".
If there's anything they hate more than education, it's sex.
libodem
(19,288 posts)6. They have never heard of grass roots