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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 06:33 AM Apr 2012

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."

http://www.alternet.org/visions/154853/deciphering_right-wing_code%3A_what_conservatives_are_really_saying_when_they_seem_to_spew_nonsense_/?page=2

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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 OP
K&R drm604 Apr 2012 #1
Conservatives advocate ignorance. And, it appears that they have no trouble finding "buyers".nt ladjf Apr 2012 #2
I have no need to decipher the ideas of cowards Mosaic Apr 2012 #3
Reagan was successful at convincing people that it's OK to be stupid. GeorgeGist Apr 2012 #4
Then, every time they say "public", I will insist they said "pubic". DCKit Apr 2012 #5
They have never heard of grass roots libodem Apr 2012 #6

Mosaic

(1,451 posts)
3. I have no need to decipher the ideas of cowards
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 10:13 AM
Apr 2012

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.
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 10:50 AM
Apr 2012

As history will demonstrate, Reagan was wrong.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
5. Then, every time they say "public", I will insist they said "pubic".
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 11:30 AM
Apr 2012

If there's anything they hate more than education, it's sex.

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