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tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
2. All we had to do was make the 5th grade easier so they didn't have to spend 4 years there.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 10:02 AM
Jul 2017

Now they want revenge.

Maggiemayhem

(804 posts)
8. They watch too many Beverly Hillbillies reruns
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 12:06 PM
Jul 2017

With just a sixth grade education, one could aspire to be a fry cook, brain surgeon, double ought spy, rocket scientist, movie producer and more. On a serious note, the actress who played Ms. Hathaway ran for political office and Buddy Epstein ( Jed) called her a liberal and campaigned for her opponent. She lost.

ffr

(22,636 posts)
5. Republicans leading us to idiocracy.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 11:28 AM
Jul 2017

Convinced that education and higher learning are bad? Here's the future they are leading us towards.


Runningdawg

(4,488 posts)
6. Their churches are adding to the problem
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 11:50 AM
Jul 2017

My friend who is now an Atheist, had a teenage daughter who wanted to be an engineer. Her pastor pulled her aside and reminded her of their churches stance on higher education, which did not extend to girls. She was told if she persisted in supporting her daughters desire to go to college both her and her daughter would be asked to leave the church.
To her horror, her daughter decided the church was more important.
My friend then left her husband, left the church and her 2 young adult sons went with her. The father and daughter stayed. The week she turned 18 she also graduated from HS and was married. She gave birth to her first child before she turned 19 and now at age 22, she has 3 children with #4 on the way.
Not only do Republicans believe education turns you into a liberal, many of them who are Christian impress upon young women their duty is to out-breed the opposition. The 2 go hand in hand in a chilling combination.

Maggiemayhem

(804 posts)
7. That is horrifying
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 11:57 AM
Jul 2017

Religion sure has changed for the worse, since evangelicals kicked out the mainline. This thinking should convert many to unbelief.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,144 posts)
10. That whole "out-breed the opposition" is very scary.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:52 PM
Jul 2017

Its the same in every religious household. At least in fundamentalists like Muslims, Christians. It will end in a good majority of these zombies for Jesus/Trump here. They now number just under half, but in a few years they will be a majority. Combine that with a majority of increasingly radical Islamics over there. Not good for world peace in the future.

Dorn

(519 posts)
9. My lovely daughter just became an ABD -- she is not a republican and she knows education is valuable
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 02:19 PM
Jul 2017

ABD := all but dissertation

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