This is what religious conservatives does.

[Rev. Rye]

This is what creates theocracies and dictatorships throughout human history. But this attitude here in America scares the shit out of me. We cannot tolerate this message growing and gaining popularity.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennes...l-together

If we go by this fucker's logic, then the Taliban would be right for shooting Malala.

He was using hyperbole.  He has voted for public money for higher education and sponsored bills for prisoners to have access to college programs as well as statewide master plan for public universities in Tennessee.  He was reacting to a woman that was yelling at him.  He is not calling for the abolishment of higher education.  This is one reason we are so divided.  That whatever we say will be taken out of context and used against us.  Find real things you don't like about him to push back on.

I think there is a small germ of truth in what you're saying. The more I look at it, the more convinced I become that Republicans don't even have much of an ideology anymore beyond gainsaying that anything that anyone to the left of them says is bad is good and vice versa.





I can't be sure that they actually believe that higher education should be abolished, but at this point, I think the question of what they actually believe in their heart of hearts isn't even relevant anymore. If what they actually believed mattered to them, they'd either have bucked the trend of Religious Rightism or they'd have fought against Trump at some point. What matters for them now is winning. And if winning means America ends up like this (with the sole exception being that they're actually speaking English), then so be it: