American Thinker
2017-11-22 03:13:17 UTC
Conservatives: The New Taliban
The Republican Taliban has offered its budget. Taliban, you
say? Really?
How does the Taliban work? They keep people stupid. Women are
witches. Jews are another species. Westerners are degenerate.
Only the "wise and powerful" Taliban leaders know what the
Koran really says, because they're the only ones who can
read, write, or tell everybody else what's real.
There was a time when the Muslim world was enlightened. They
invented the writing and math that we use today. They were
the center of the world for science. But then, in some
places, the Taliban took over.
And don't for a minute think that it's really all about
religion. Religion is just used to manipulate the useful
idiots. It's really about money, power, and control. And that
can only be held by thugs like the Taliban when the people
are kept poor and stupid.
Here in America, there's a new Taliban rising. They fetishize
guns, just like the Afghan Taliban. They fear women and
education. They want to keep the people stupid and in chains.
They're the plutocrats and the billionaires who rose to power
on the heels of Reagan's trickle-down economics. And now,
what's trickling down to us is their stupidity.
As Mark Morford wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle's blog
SF Gate, "Six percent of Americans believe in unicorns.
Thirty-six percent believe in UFOs. A whopping 24 percent
believe dinosaurs and man hung out together. Eighteen percent
still believe the sun revolves around the Earth. Nearly 30
percent believe cloud computing involves... actual clouds. A
shockingly sad 18 percent, to this very day, believe the
president is a Muslim. Do you believe in angels? Forty-five
percent of Americans do. In fact, roughly 48 percent
Republicans and Democrats alike believe in some form of
creationism."
So why do Americans believe in such absurd things? Because
they're being taught these ridiculous beliefs in our nation's
schools, and hearing them from our corporatized media.
All across America, our children are learning from the
curriculum of the plutocrats and billionaires. In Louisiana
for example, children learn about how hippies were dirty,
rock musicians worship Satan, and climate change is one big
lie.
But America's new Taliban isn't just controlling what's being
taught in our classrooms. They're also dictating what's being
shown on America's billionaire-backed corporatized media.
That's where the likes of Rupert Murdoch come in.
Thanks to Murdoch, millions of Americans are subjected to the
mountains of misinformation and half-truths that pour out of
Fox So-Called News on a daily basis.
There used to be a time in our country when the mainstream
media actually had to report on the "news". But times have
changed.
In 1986, Reagan ended the FCC doctrine that required radio
and TV stations to actually carry "real news" as a "public
service," and within two years the money-losing news services
had come under network entertainment divisions and all news
decisions since then have been made based on ratings.
Oh, and, the following year Rush Limbaugh started his radio
show.
And now, plutocrat extraordinaires the Koch brothers are
looking to buy several major American newspapers, so that
they can dictate what Americans read in their morning paper.
The Kochtopus is interested in buying the Tribune Company
newspapers, which includes the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun
and the Los Angeles Times. According to the Hollywood
Reporter, the Kochtopus is "interested in the clout they
could gain through the Times' editorial pages."
Now, I can talk about all of this openly here, because most
of the people who will vote for the new American Taliban
don't bother to inform themselves with real "news", don't
engage in critical thinking, and don't want to know what's
really going on in the world.
They love their ignorance, their bigotry, and most of all,
their Fox News.
From Thomas Jefferson to John F. Kennedy, we have always, as
a nation, held high the ideal of a quality education for
everybody.
As Jefferson wrote in a letter to George Wythe, his mentor,
in 1786, "I think by far the most important bill in our whole
code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people.
No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation
of freedom and happiness... Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade
against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating
the common people."
Today, America faces a choice.
We can hand our country over to the new Taliban, and watch as
the plutocrats and billionaires consolidate even more wealth,
power and control over information in this country.
Or, we can fight for a progressive America, where there is a
universal, high quality education for all, a strong social
safety net and a broad and strong middle class.
This choice looms large in the current budget debate. The
Republican budget cuts funding to education, the social
safety net, and makes the rich richer while making the poor
and middle class poorer.
Meanwhile, the Democratic budget requires the rich to pay
something a little bit closer to their fair share, and uses
those funds to strengthen education, the social safety net,
and the middle class.
So America, it's up to you.
Your choice: Do you want the billionaire-backed Republican
Taliban in control, or a Democratic America, where unicorns
and dinosaurs are only talked about in children's fantasy
books?
The Republican Taliban has offered its budget. Taliban, you
say? Really?
How does the Taliban work? They keep people stupid. Women are
witches. Jews are another species. Westerners are degenerate.
Only the "wise and powerful" Taliban leaders know what the
Koran really says, because they're the only ones who can
read, write, or tell everybody else what's real.
There was a time when the Muslim world was enlightened. They
invented the writing and math that we use today. They were
the center of the world for science. But then, in some
places, the Taliban took over.
And don't for a minute think that it's really all about
religion. Religion is just used to manipulate the useful
idiots. It's really about money, power, and control. And that
can only be held by thugs like the Taliban when the people
are kept poor and stupid.
Here in America, there's a new Taliban rising. They fetishize
guns, just like the Afghan Taliban. They fear women and
education. They want to keep the people stupid and in chains.
They're the plutocrats and the billionaires who rose to power
on the heels of Reagan's trickle-down economics. And now,
what's trickling down to us is their stupidity.
As Mark Morford wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle's blog
SF Gate, "Six percent of Americans believe in unicorns.
Thirty-six percent believe in UFOs. A whopping 24 percent
believe dinosaurs and man hung out together. Eighteen percent
still believe the sun revolves around the Earth. Nearly 30
percent believe cloud computing involves... actual clouds. A
shockingly sad 18 percent, to this very day, believe the
president is a Muslim. Do you believe in angels? Forty-five
percent of Americans do. In fact, roughly 48 percent
Republicans and Democrats alike believe in some form of
creationism."
So why do Americans believe in such absurd things? Because
they're being taught these ridiculous beliefs in our nation's
schools, and hearing them from our corporatized media.
All across America, our children are learning from the
curriculum of the plutocrats and billionaires. In Louisiana
for example, children learn about how hippies were dirty,
rock musicians worship Satan, and climate change is one big
lie.
But America's new Taliban isn't just controlling what's being
taught in our classrooms. They're also dictating what's being
shown on America's billionaire-backed corporatized media.
That's where the likes of Rupert Murdoch come in.
Thanks to Murdoch, millions of Americans are subjected to the
mountains of misinformation and half-truths that pour out of
Fox So-Called News on a daily basis.
There used to be a time in our country when the mainstream
media actually had to report on the "news". But times have
changed.
In 1986, Reagan ended the FCC doctrine that required radio
and TV stations to actually carry "real news" as a "public
service," and within two years the money-losing news services
had come under network entertainment divisions and all news
decisions since then have been made based on ratings.
Oh, and, the following year Rush Limbaugh started his radio
show.
And now, plutocrat extraordinaires the Koch brothers are
looking to buy several major American newspapers, so that
they can dictate what Americans read in their morning paper.
The Kochtopus is interested in buying the Tribune Company
newspapers, which includes the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun
and the Los Angeles Times. According to the Hollywood
Reporter, the Kochtopus is "interested in the clout they
could gain through the Times' editorial pages."
Now, I can talk about all of this openly here, because most
of the people who will vote for the new American Taliban
don't bother to inform themselves with real "news", don't
engage in critical thinking, and don't want to know what's
really going on in the world.
They love their ignorance, their bigotry, and most of all,
their Fox News.
From Thomas Jefferson to John F. Kennedy, we have always, as
a nation, held high the ideal of a quality education for
everybody.
As Jefferson wrote in a letter to George Wythe, his mentor,
in 1786, "I think by far the most important bill in our whole
code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people.
No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation
of freedom and happiness... Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade
against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating
the common people."
Today, America faces a choice.
We can hand our country over to the new Taliban, and watch as
the plutocrats and billionaires consolidate even more wealth,
power and control over information in this country.
Or, we can fight for a progressive America, where there is a
universal, high quality education for all, a strong social
safety net and a broad and strong middle class.
This choice looms large in the current budget debate. The
Republican budget cuts funding to education, the social
safety net, and makes the rich richer while making the poor
and middle class poorer.
Meanwhile, the Democratic budget requires the rich to pay
something a little bit closer to their fair share, and uses
those funds to strengthen education, the social safety net,
and the middle class.
So America, it's up to you.
Your choice: Do you want the billionaire-backed Republican
Taliban in control, or a Democratic America, where unicorns
and dinosaurs are only talked about in children's fantasy
books?
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Rightists are spineless and obedient, void of critical
thinking and reason
Rightists are spineless and obedient, void of critical
thinking and reason