What's with all these faux Constitutional terrorist scholars?

[Dream Girl]

They parrot ideas about their “rights’ and “freedom”. They try to fake their knowledge of history “1776!” and the Constitution, but their obvious ignorance is pathetic and infuriating. A combination of arrogance, ignorance, stupidity and hate.

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. There seems to be a growing idiocracy in this country

that feels more entitled as time passes.

[RKP5637]

2. They hold up the lower end of the IQ curve in America!!! n/t

[vishnura]

3. What a gig, GED and $186k/year.

And still being ungrateful...talk about white privilege's.

[Mister Ed]

4. To these people, the Constitution consists solely of...

...the second half of the Second Amendment.

[lastlib]

5. Hey, they're the ones who made the top half of the class....

...POSSIBLE!

[hlthe2b]

6. I really don't care what their education (source); I'm now convinced EVERYONE running for congress

MUST at least demonstrate they know as much about history & civics as those immigrants taking the citizenship test (which, btw, is supposedly becoming more difficult).

Yes, credentials matter and education matters, though I am more than willing to acknowledge there is more than one route to a good education. That includes-- as with the late President Harry Truman-- minimal higher education greatly supplemented with voracious self-education via reading.

Give me a Harry Truman over a Harvard-educated Ted Cruz or Yale-educated Hawley any day.

Or a Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford-educated member who ACTUALLY learned something that they have put in real-world practice.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Hey, they are led by none other than Rudi G., trump's very competent lawyer (NOT!)...

I heard that in his last recent court appearance, he was a joke, let a fart, and worse...the case was thrown out too.

[RockRaven]

8. Cruz and Hawley have JDs from Harvard and Yale respectively and they make equally ignorant

statements, just with more polish.

The ignorance expressed has little to do with their education level and much to do with the fundamental dishonesty behind their statements. They don't care that their arguments are wrong -- they start with their desired conclusion and construct a reason why the conclusion is correct which they think contains some element which nobody can argue against.

[2naSalit]

9. No offense...

Since after the GED, I went to college and graduated twice so...

[backtoblue]

10. Dude, my GED got me into college.

Ignorance is not measured by lack of formal education.

It's measured in the arrogance of their intolerance and hate.

[DLCWIdem]

17. Well said.

[ms liberty]

14. "Ain't it like most people, I'm no different"

"We love to talk on things we don't know about "
-10,000 Words. Universal truths from The Avett Bros.

[RealityCheque]

12. And even one said that...

The “J” in Donald J Trump stands for “genius”. I kid you not, and yes, he was dead serious.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. This is a shitty way of saying what you're trying to say, apologies or no.

[greenjar_01]

15. GED is the same as a high school diploma. Please move on from this

[hunter]

16. I quit high school before there was a GED.

My younger sister quit high school and took the GED.

Curiously, my sister and I have degrees from top tier universities.

Our siblings who completed high school do not.

But it is possible our siblings are smarter than us.

I still think quitting high school was one of the better decisions I've made in my life.

High school might have killed me, like it did one of my friends.

One can find ignorant fascist assholes throughout the educational spectrum, from grade school dropouts to PhDs.