By Shawn Johnson
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I have been ripped by my Republican friends for lumping Republicans in with the uneducated, ignorant, and stupid. Despite the evidence I have supplied, they continue to insist I am stereotypically lumping them in with the lunatics and morons I see rallying for their side. Now, I can claim victory in the following statement...Republicans are not only stupid, they believe that being stupid is a better way to live, and they actively pursue a life of stupidity and ignorance.
Shawn, how dare you say such things about fine upstanding people like Joe the Plumber (who isn't a plumber, name really isn't Joe, never made $250,000 annually, and votes against his best interests)? Well, I am sorry, but Rick Santorum, a presidential candidate mounting a serious bid to be the Republican nominee, agrees with me. Mr. Santorum claimed that President Obama is a "snob" for wanting people to go to college. He went on to claim that going to college causes you to lose your faith and allows you to be indoctrinated by liberal professors.
Now, since we measure intelligence by I.Q., I can use that as evidence that college graduates are usually fairly intelligent (most MENSA members have college degrees). So, by Santorum's own admission, they should all be liberal atheists. Using Rick Santorum's own logic, smart people are liberal atheists and stupid people vote for Rick Santorum. Thank you, Mr. Santorum for clearing that up for us. Although if I "Google" your name, I should really call you Mr. Frothy Ass Juice.
If you are running against intelligence, I can only assume that you support and promote stupidity. As Republicans you have to be either stupid, ignorant, clinically insane, or the largest group of liars ever to live. I truly believed that it was the latter, but I was giving you way too much credit. I am so glad that Rick Santorum cleared that up for me.
There is good news for you Republicans. This country is overwhelmingly stupid as well, so you really have a fighting chance in the upcoming election. Democrats are naive. They actually believe that Obama is magically going to raise over a billion dollars and that their fellow Americans couldn't possibly vote for the boobs running on the Republican ticket. They actually think that you hear the same things they hear. They think that you both speak the same language. They think when a candidate says, "I love poor people, they taste like chicken," he is out of touch with America and not very funny. You go and load your shotgun and tell Maw' to "set the suppa table!"
I am so glad that Rick Santorum had the audacity to point out a very unpopular opinion. Stupid people don't go to college; therefore they keep their faith, become more conservative, and vote for him. This is a simple enough line of thinking. I think that Rick Santorum has actually encouraged more people to go to college now than Barack Obama ever could. If you are an 18 year old in the United States, you may hear what Rick Santorum said and say to yourself, "My god, I need to attend college!"
Now, if you take a look at sheer numbers, there may be some evidence to back up Santorum's claim. About twenty-seven percent of Americans have obtained a college degree. About twenty-five percent of Americans are non-theists. It is almost complete indoctrination. Why would the act of simply going to college destroy one's faith?
It may be rooted in the fact that having the ability to read critically might seriously upset the "historical" findings of the Bible. You may be compelled to believe that a man didn't live in a whale for three days or start an ark collecting two of every known species on the earth. You may not accept that the world is 6,000 years old or than a man was born of a virgin, walked on water, turned water into wine, and healed a blind man by telling him he could see. Learning may drive up your skepticism just a little.
If you are still reading this, and you have attended college, you will probably realize that I am being facetious. But, you have to admit, looking at the glass as half-empty as Republicans always do under an Obama presidency, Rick Santorum is directly taking a shot at his own voters. And, they are too stupid to see it. He is simply running against intelligence which is increasingly becoming a Republican position. More so it has been the position of various religions for centuries. The message is simple. Stop the spread of education because education will destroy the church.
In this respect, Santorum is hitting on a key tenet of religion (actually, survival mechanism of religion is probably more appropriate). Religion is oppressive, and it requires a great deal of obedience from its followers. Yes, Santorum is telling his own voters in one single sentence that they are sheep of the church. Education, which is President Obama's game, will cost you your faith. "Liberal" professors will fill your head with heretical thoughts, just like the apple from the tree of knowledge. What Santorum doesn't tell his voters is the real reason that religion is not for the thoughtful.
Thinkers root out corporate scum. Religion is full of corporate hacks who make a buck off of people's fears and indiscretions. You know, capitalism as we understand it today. We don't actually make and export products anymore so our markets have taken on a religious like form. The stock market goes up and down because of how the country "feels." Better buy shit you don't need, or you will be responsible for a tanking economy.
Just like corporate profiteers, religion uses fear of the afterlife to make money. Please make a donation to the church so you will go to heaven. But, one fact keeps getting in the way of religion's pro-business message. The Bible is animatedly against capitalism, the Old Testament warning against false idols (metaphor for money) and the New Testament championing the poor and those without. Religion is so hypocritical it attempts to mask the very doctrine that it condemns others for not adhering to.
American capitalism bucks religious doctrine. In biblical times when kings ruled the earth, things were much simpler. You are the common man, and you need not, want, or worry about money and riches. Leave that to the king. Hence, what's Caesar's is Caesar's. But, America, founded on an ideal of representative democracy, cannot escape the fact that ordinary Americans can indeed become rich (despite what my previous blogs would have you believe). The American Dream is anti-religious. There is even a commandment against the American Dream. However, there is no commandment against slavery. There is no commandment against oppression of women and minorities. Apparently, these things slipped God's mind.
So, religion, in the name of self-preservation, did what it always does. It threw its basic principles right out the window to support its hunger for wealth. The once anti-wealth fable has been distorted to support the ruling class. Simply take a look at the Vatican and you will see it does not coincide with the message of the founder. And, keep in mind, religion has never been anti-wealth or anti-power for itself. It has always been anti-wealth and anti-power for its followers. And, that is why, if you are not a follower, you must be destroyed.
That entire line of thinking is where Mr. Santorum's demonization of collegiate educated Americans comes from. But, he is too narrow-minded to realize it. The only thing he realizes is that it is another opposite position he can take from Barack Obama.
At the end of the day Rick Santorum is another backwards small mind who appeals to the least of us as Americans. The fact that he is gaining so much steam in the Republican primary says so much more about Mitt Romney than it does about Rick Santorum.
