Trying to sort something out...

[EC]

The Republicans and Neocons complain that the left are all college educated snooty people. They complain that as soon as someone gets an education or becomes a Supreme Court judge, or sees what is going on in the world, become liberal.

Don't they wonder why?

And since they promote education publically, why would anyone believe they'd follow through and make education available to all, since then, they will become liberal? Are we to believe they'd do anything against the party's interest? ( of course we know they don't want everyone educated, they would love to have them dumb and Republican, that's why privately they cut programs and aid)

And when they send their kids off to college, are they afraid they may turn "liberal" and may even join the Peace Corp or something like that?

And why wouldn't everyone want to be a liberal, since it means you are more educated?

[rkc3]

1. I've always wondered about those people too.

I mean if you are worried that your kids are going to turn into liberals while in college - why send them to a liberal college? Send them to places like Bob Jones University (BJU - ha ha) or Calvin College - there they can spend the same money and the kids can get a good conservative education (oxymoron?).

Additionally, isn't it interesting that some of the people doing the complaining about liberal educations come from some fairly liberal backgrounds?

[seabeyond]

2. it is funny. the jab at dems..... intellectual elitists,...

i mean what kind of insult is that. and doesn't the repug feel foolish saying they don't like me cause i am smarter than they are. i think it is funny.

[bryant69]

4. It is amusing

But it ties back into a real American theme; we hate royalty. Americans are always ready to pee on people who think they are better than the rest of us. Even if thinking that is somewhat justified.

Bryant
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[tonkatoy57]

3. It is to laugh

"Oh, you bunch of pointly headed intellectuals", said by graduates of:
Harvard
Yale
University of Chicago
Stanford
etc., etc., etc.

[mike6640]

8. Said graduates are

still republican in spite of their higher education.

We might want to rethink the whole argument....

M

Edited for typo

[JohnnyBoots]

5. That is why "No Child Left Behind" teaches kids to take tests, not to

think on their own. Teaches them how to follow rules and be graded following those rules, not to formulate and defend their own opinions.

[Richard Steele]

6. A combination of JEALOUSY and FEAR of the UNKNOWN.

Becoming educated often requires personal CHANGE.

Humans FEAR change.

Some of us become MATURE enough to confront that primal fear,
and overcome it to varying degrees.

Others NEVER reach that stage of maturity;
they cling to the comfort of familiar ideas,
and remain trapped in an infantile psychological state.

As an example: Their support of B*sh's "foreign policy"
is no more than a re-phrasing of the old mantra, "My
dad can beat up your dad".

Similarly, all of their other "opinions" are
merely knee-jerk emotional responses, relics of
an arrested juvenile development.

[EC]

7. There are also those that retain their childhood curiosity

and want to learn all they can and go at it with excitement and anticipation...