The Republican's hatred of facts and knowledge

[Cyrano]

There is an immense sack of bullshit called “No Child Left Behind” and it's code for leaving all children in ignorance. This has been a major goal of the Republican Party. An uneducated electorate can be conned into voting against their own interests and casting their votes for greed, ignorance, bigotry and tyranny.

The American fundamentalist lunatic fringe is still trying to censor the writings of Darwin, Mark Twain, Anne Frank, J. D. Salinger, Joseph Heller, and countless others.

Book burning was among one of Hitler’s most important and devastating activities. Never underestimate the hatred that barbarians have for knowledge and progress.

What many people don't understand, is that those who control the narrative of history control virtually everything. This is one of the most important lessons of Orwell's "1984." (If you've never read it, please, please, turn off your computer or TV, go to the library, and get caught up on what Bush/Cheney/Rove used for their blueprint.)

What tyrants fear most is an informed populace. Just watch as the Thugs try to rewrite the history of the Bush era over the coming years.

[Phred42]

1. Republicans hate Democracy and the idea of America and We The People.

[Cyrano]

2. Yep. What's revealing is that the currency of the "values" people is hatred

[Winterblues]

3. You do know that Ted Kennedy co-sponsored that bill?

In fact a good portion was written by Ted.

[Cyrano]

4. What that bill (or any bill) is intended to accomplish

is always open to interpretation by those who would use or misuse that bill.

Ted Kennedy was focused on education.

The Bush administration has always been focused on growing mushrooms -- keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em fertilizer (shit).

The way Ted Kennedy intended "No child left behind" to be used had nothing whatever to do with the title of the bill, or Ted's intentions.

Keep in mind that Bush's "Clean Air" initiative was an excuse for accelerated air pollution.

Ted Kennedy's biggest mistake was trusting Bush. I, for one, wouldn't believe anyone in the Bush administration on any issue, at any time or in any place. If they said the world was round, I would probably start believing in a flat Earth.

[TahitiNut]

5. Remember, it was ILLEGAL to teach a slave to read.

:shrug:

[Cyrano]

6. Exactly, TahitiNut. Knowledge is a dangerous thing.

And it's why Republicans are all in favor of ignorance.

[applegrove]

7. How do you reach that 25% of the American public who are uninformed and

vote GOP? How do you educate them to the fact that having leaders who know stuff is very important?

[TheKentuckian]

8. Ban private schools, home schooling, dropping out before 18,

home districts, and community funding for schools for starters.

Make sure that the children of wealthy and powerful have the exact same foundation as the the crack head's kid and you'll really start to see no children left behind.
Its separate but equal all over, disguised as earning a better way. If little Thurston Howell IV has to go to the same school as the kids in the bricks with the same resources then you'll see a tide that lifts all boats super fast.

[codjh9]

9. Check this out: I have an aunt & uncle who are diehard Repubs, and my aunt admitted to my mother

a few years ago - with a straight face! - that she didn't read or watch much (news - as if TV news contained a lot anyway) - yet is adamant about her position. WTF?!?!?! In other words, she always votes Repuke but doesn't really have a clue what's going on in the country or the world. Hubbie watches Fox News, though, and reads right-wing emails (and probably other crap), so gosh, I guess they ARE informed...:puke: