Roberts: Arizona legislator says kids shouldn't have to go to school
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Source: The Arizona Republic (Part of USA Today Network)
“Education used to be a privilege,” he told Hank Stephenson of the Arizona Capitol Times. “People used to believe getting an education was something you had to be privileged to get, that you had to work hard to get. Now we basically force it down everybody’s throats.”
Oh the horror, of trying to create an educated citizenry. Of forcing kids to actually learn something, in the hope that they grow up and become able to earn a living, contribute to society and maybe even pay a few taxes.
"We’re telling kids they have to go to school, and we put fences around the schools to protect them now, and we give them a meal or two and sometimes send a backpack of food home with them. So now schools are not only tasked with educating our children, but also feeding our children. What happened to the personal responsibility of a parent to feed and educate their kids?”
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2017/05/01/roberts-arizona-legislator-says-kids-shouldnt-have-go-school/308643001/
Not only is the damn Guberment forcing our kids to learn, they're feeding them too!
I swear the stupid is so strong in some of these wingnuts it hurts.
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Anything they don't like is described as being "shoved down our throats!"
I think that many of the leaders of the Party genuinely lack empathy and see other people merely as pawns for their own utilitarian desires. That is why I call them psychopaths. Like I said, there isn't a word that cleanly describes the situation because they show tendencies like the aforementioned lack of empathy, the utilitarianism, the disdain for people, and other traits; but there is a lack of other criteria that makes it difficult to justify fully, to call them psychopaths.
Despicable, or deplorable are good words. 
