"Bush: everyone is stupid except the well-off" -Great Point from kos

[Rose Siding]

Anyone notice how Bush's answer to everything was "education"? So if you are unemployed, it's because you're uneducated. If you've been discriminated against, you're uneducated. You have no healthy insurance? You're uneducated.
Interesting how A LOT OF PEOPLE GOT STUPID during Bush's presidency, huh?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/13/222132/91

[cosmicaug]

1. Standard conservative dogma.

Why the surprise? It's standard conservative, social Darwinist dogma which also happens to be found in certain Christian fundamentalist theologies (see prosperity gospel types at a friendly Christian television network near you). The poor are poor because they are unworthy. If they weren't unworthy they would not be poor. QED.

Trying to mess with that to produce greater social justice is trying to mess with the proper natural order of things if look at it from the standard conservative social Darwinist worldview.

Alternatively, from the Christian fundamentalist worldview, trying to directly mess with that defies the will of God. The proper approach is to turn them into the right kind of Christians so that, by the grace of God, they just might be able to get themselves out of poverty, etc. (though whether they do so or not is not actually important --all that actually matters is whether they have been "saved"). This explains what the big deal with "faith based initiatives" is: the big deal is that it is the only thing that can properly work to resolve social problems when seen within a certain specific type of Christian fundamentalist worldview.

P.S. And it should be noted that the religious version of this is nothing recent as variations of this date back at least to the Calvinists and their predestination dogma.

On Edit: Added postscript.

[OneBlueSky]

2. I particularly noticed this in the discussion of affirmative action . . .

Kerry made the explicit point that racism is still a problem in this country . . . rather than addressing that in any way, Bush started in on education -- seemingly his answer to everything . . . despite the fact that his education policies suck . ..

[beaconess]

3. And the fact that a whole heap of educated black folks face discrimination

every day of their lives.

What do you call a black man with a PhD?

N*gg*r.

Funny, but not funny.

[mhr]

4. Unemployed 52 Months - CV Includes

BSEE
MBA
Commercial Pilot
Honorably Discharged Naval Officer

Over 2,500 Resumes Out The Door.

I guess I must be stupid because I have not a clue for what I should retrain.

[cheshire]

9. Ex-president hunter. I'm sorry for the hand you've been delt.

[endnote]

5. Bush is only "officially" educated.

He never really understood anything. You cannot fix such basic stupidity.

[Cha]

6. So what happened to

boosh?

[CityHall]

7. Wish Kerry had said...

Mr President, there are people in this country who are educated and still can't find a job.

[cheshire]

8. So when he goes back to Crawford will he go to school.