This blog is dedicated to progressive and liberal thought. It also discusses new technology, how technology affects privacy and developments in Russia, China, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Rightardia fully supports the rights of workers to organize, the feminist movement, and all Americans regardless or ethnicity, sex or gender.It uses humor, satire and parody to expose conservative thought for what it truly is: BS! Rightardia contributes to the DNC, DCCC, DSCC and MoveOn.Org.
Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
This is a nine minute video, but it is worth watching. It has a terrific opening.
Rightardia believes the decline of American education started in the 1980's with the anit-tax mantra of the GOP and Reaganomics. The spouse was forced out of the home to make ends meet and the kids were ones who suffered.
This is also why teenage drug use and pregnancies skyrocketed. Mom was not longer at home to supervise.
After the GOP let the genie out of the bottle, it has tinkered with US education for more than a decade trying to fix it with FCAT tests, charter schools, vouchers, Edison schools and so forth in Florida to no avail.
Until mom or dad can make enough so one spouse can stay home and help their children with their homework and also make sure the work gets done, American education will continue to decline as a recent OECD report has shown.
Many stupid Americans think war is good for the economy, but it isn't. Some economists think 90 per cent of more of the deficit was caused by excessive defense spending during past wars.
A recession almost always follows the end of a war and unemployment rises as the soldiers, seaman and airman return home and are discharged.
right now the Afghan war is costing the US about $ 2 billion per week. Imagine spending that money in the us on the infrastructure rather than blowing up Afghan villages. Rightardia saw a video this week of an entire Afghan village being bombed and destroyed. We wonder how many women an children were killed during the attack?
No doubt some rightard has the video on their web sites as a demonstration of US power.
There was a time not too long ago in this country that we
used to walk through walls of fire to make sure we weren’t funding
Hamas or Hezbollah. I have news for you: there are a lot of
universities that are just as dangerous with indoctrination of our
children as these terror groups are in Iran or North Korea.
This is right wing BS. Fist of all many of the private religious schools and the numerous 'for profit' schools are right wing. Most of the students with two year Associate Degrees get minimal exposure to the liberal arts because they do not have to take many liberal arts or social sciences course to graduate.
Poorly educated people often confuse educated professors with liberalism. Educated people know the US was not founded as a white, Christian nation and most professors understand the difference between socialism and fascism.
Many teachers have a more metropolitan and international view of the world. College teaches young adults how to think and analyze issues. Along the way, young adults loose many of their foolish conventional childhood notions of how the world really is.
Rightardia considers too many people on the right to have High School Harry or Harriet Syndrome. Middle Class Warrior has one of these in his family. Watch Matthew McConaughey's character in the movie "Dazed and Confused" if you want to understand a High School Harry.
Some of the preconceptions of a High School Harry are:
1. The US is the greatest country in the world. This may have been so at one time, but not now. Rightardia has published many international indexes that show where the US fits into the international food chain. We are frequently last in many of these studies of the industrial world.
2. The US is a Christian nation and we must believe in God to keep America strong. The Establishment Clause (First Amendment) and article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli make it clear the US is and always was a secular nation.
3. The Civil War was fought to preserve state's rights or end slavery. Neither is true. The Civil War was fought to prevent the expansion of slavery into new US territories. The war would have been over by 1863 if the union forces had been led by a more able commander than George B. McClellan. The South really never had much of a chance of prevailing.
3. The US won World War 2. Although the US did defeat the Japanese in the Pacific, this victory over the Nazis in Europe was the main US effort. The Russians were primarily responsible for the defeat of the Nazis in World War 2 and paid a horrible price (60 million people) to beat them.
4. Social Security won't be there when I retire. Middle Class Warrior (MCW) has a 40-year old wingnut as a relative who believes this. He has credit cards that need to be paid off, he doesn't own a house and he drives a 12 year old car.
MCW explained to him that he would have to accumulate more than $250,000 when he retires in 25 years to provide a comparable Social Security Income of $1500 per month.
He would have to put away at least $7,000-S8,000 as year to make it happen and invest his money wisely. He would also have to hit retirement age at the right time when Wall Street was doing well.
This is the same person who told his family when he graduated from high school that he would be living on the beach, be driving three cars, own a sail boat and be a millionaire. Many of his friends call him a 'dreamer." The Major considers him a "bull shit artist' like Sarah Palin.
The wingnut supports extending tax cuts for the affluent because he thinks he might one become affluent himself. Fat chance!
This wingnut doesn't even realize that his income places him in the lower middle class
He one of the many Red Staters who receives the Earned Income Tax Credit, yet he complains about Federal income tax.
He is one of the 40 per cent of Americans, that Rush Limbaugh complains about, who doesn't pay income tax because his income is so low. Yet he is a ditto head and doesn't see the contradiction.
Yes, he has a bad case of High School Harry Syndrome.
