Santorum: Education bad, stupidity good

So now Rick Santorum calls President Obama an elitist, liberal snob for wanting to make college available to as many people as possible. The reasoning being that colleges and universities are run by liberals and this is the President's method of seeding the liberal political base.

Perhaps.

But anyone who has been to college knows that basically the largest lesson you should come away with, regardless of your major, is learning how to think critically. Regardless of your teacher's political bent. And Santorum knows this. He also knows his base. He knows they are largely ignorant, and their ignorance leads to fear. Fear of change, fear of culture, fear of people different than them. Fear of people with more education than them.

And I'm sorry to say, that also means they are fairly religious. Not necessarily church going religious. But look to religion for their guidance. And there quite possibly could be no worse guide than organized religion.

GOP War with Iran would be on the 99%'s backs.

So all the GOP candidates want to appear all tough and "I got your cojones right here, asshole". Let's take a brief look at what that war would entail.

It would surely allow the GOP a reasoning to fall back on for rescinding their promise to the American people to cut military spending. It would most likely cost TRILLIONS, not billions, of dollars. Iran would fight like a cornered badger. Taxes would go up on all but the wealthiest, because as we know, the job creator's can't be denied the capital they need to create these war machine jobs. Jobs actually may rise for a bit. For a bit. It would even further destabilize the middle east. Israel would sit back, and holler out every so often, "Don't worry, we got this little trIangle covered" from behind the weaponry we provided them with. And once again, an unnecessary war would be fought on the backs of the poor and middle class.

Just as the wealthy castigate the poor for having no play in the game of taxes, the wealthy have no play in the game of war. Until a complete and all-encompassing draft is installed (as horrible as that sounds) the wealthy will have no play. When they start seeing their children come home in body bags, then the reality of what they have wrought will hit home. And it may have the unintended consequence of making them realize having some humanity isn't a weakness, or a bad thing.