Anti-Keynesian, anti-evolution, anti-climate change Tea Party GOP.

[philly_bob]

Makes you proud of American education, eh?

[Viking12]

1. Anti-reality: Encapsulates the whole 3-ring circus of the teabaggers.

[philly_bob]

2. You nailed it, Viking. (nt)

[seabeyond]

3. this has nothing to do with american educational system. nt

[philly_bob]

7. True. I don't want to be seen as a teacher-basher, but ...

there's been a long strain of anti-intellectualism and religious fundamentalism in American history that's more responsible than the educational system.

[seabeyond]

9. further, the "anti-intellectualism and religious fundamentalism" is totally the issue and

what is responsible that has nothing to do with education system. my point is, my kids are educated in the bible belt. the "anti-intellectualism and religious fundamentalism" is well adn healthy adn persistent here in the panhandle of texas. and it is NOWHERE in the pblic educational system. private, yes. not public. anywhere at all. ever. nada.

they are the forces fighting that very "anti-intellectualism and religious fundamentalism" and they are fighting the parents and churches. students that have parents that are academically inclined do not have an iota of "anti-intellectualism and religious fundamentalism" in their belief or educational life.

[Shandris]

4. More than the Tea Party are anti-Keynes.

It's amazing to me how they think a couple years of stagflation discredits the entire Keynesian model EVEN THOUGH the trends his model dictates are immediately obvious to anyone surveying the situation today, yet 30 YEARS of trickle-on economics causing further separation and redistribution of wealth to the top is a perfectly legitimate, time-tested theory.

Is it too early in the morning for me to note JUST how much I hate Republicans? I hope not.

[Chan790]

5. See understanding that requires one to understand Keynes.

Have you never tried to read The General Theory...? It's dense, complicated and based on an overwhelming preexisting knowledge of economics; it is in-short a book written for economists, not the common citizen. Even I find it tough to read. We'd have more success with this if:

Someone who writes like a human being would say "I'm a Keynesian and this is what Keynes meant!" then proceed to write a text of Keynesian economics theory for public consumption with a catchy title like The Economic Cure.

Friedman and Hayek are very easy to understand...they're also demonstrably wrong. See what misery their economic theories have wrought?

[LWolf]

6. Don't scapegoat my profession

when it's American voters, including Democrats, that have allowed it, and public education, to be degraded.

[philly_bob]

8. If I did that, I apologize. See above comment.

[LWolf]

10. Apology accepted.

Our education system will never be healthy and functional as long as tptb feed our nation's anti-intellectual obsession.

A good start on changing that would be to empower, instead of de-power teachers.

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