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Pap and Seder: How Stupid Has the GOP Made America? (Original Post) discocrisco01 Mar 2015 OP
Its not an attack on gevernment... Moostache Mar 2015 #1
Recall the conservative response to Renaissance Weekend Midnight Writer Mar 2015 #4
It is not just stupidity, it is extremist, eliminationist religion. Stupidity is the by-product. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #2
Happened in Nazi Germany. blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #3
GOP = rejection of the Enlightenment pbrower2a Mar 2015 #5

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
1. Its not an attack on gevernment...
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 10:40 PM
Mar 2015

Its an attack on rational thought, enlightenment thinking and the scientific method...these people are WORSE than the Taliban.

Midnight Writer

(21,548 posts)
4. Recall the conservative response to Renaissance Weekend
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 01:42 AM
Mar 2015

They came up with Dark Ages Weekend, in which conservative celebrities were waited on by "peasants" wearing rags. I think that pretty much sums up their vision of an ideal America.

pbrower2a

(132 posts)
5. GOP = rejection of the Enlightenment
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 02:16 AM
Mar 2015

The GOP wants nothing less than to turn education into propaganda -- exaggerated nationalism, pseudoscience that fits some political or cultural whim, and glorification of severe inequality as a good thing instead of 'merely' a necessary evil. As for fascism -- fascist regimes invariably reduced the educational content to the most elementary level possible.

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