re: #4 A Cranky One

Great post. Also gives insight into the current attempts to destroy public and higher education. They’re afraid of the light.

Frankly it’s not a concidence that the right attacks public education- the very tool that most Americans used for educational improvement and the fact that as an American grows more educated, the more likely he is to run away from conservatism especially social conservatism. In the past, I thought regard for education was something that was an issue that transcended ideology but seeing the right’s true contempt for any form of education that isn’t their idea of Christianity and their idea of conservative has changed my mind on that. I’ll always remember Rick Santorum without any sense of a dictionary calling President Obama a snob because he thought all Americans should get some form of post high school education.