Basic intelligence in America.(rant)

[CliveStaples]

Kichi has a nice ass. Happy birthday yesterday btw.

I love the anti euro stuff that comes out of republicans. Especially those with euro names...... Wait thats all of of them.

All of the founding fathers were influenced by euros, in fact one in particular was from a small town 15 miles from where I live.

You'll see Kant and Locke's fingerprints all over the founding documents of the United States.

But having a shared ancestry (ethnically as well as philosophically) doesn't mean that our paths haven't diverged in the meantime. The idea that we should somehow refrain from having negative opinions about Europe based on our shared heritage is...well, kind of racist.

However, I'll note that I've seen conservatives and libertarians (neither of whom necessarily identify as Republican) criticize Obama for perceived weakening of the Special Relationship with Britain, as well as his perceived neglect/abandonment of allies to placate Russia. So it's not like everyone to the right of Keith Olbermann is somehow a Ron-Paulian isolationist.

The religious in our country see education as an anathema, so conservative parents and politicians focus on making religion come first when it comes to what we teach ourselves. Being educated is being demonized by these conservatives as something wicked and evil, and the best way to keep the credulous from becoming non-credulous is to make them afraid of learning.

Do you have proof for any of this? It seems like complete speculation. It certainly doesn't characterize how my conservative parents feel about education. Note: certification is not the same as education; many college degrees aren't worth having. And both my parents have graduate degrees; I'd be surprised to find out that they think education is "wicked and evil".