http://www.salon.com/2015/04/27/the_gops_demonic_alliance_how_the_religious_right_big_business_are_dumbing_down_america/
Though presidential hopeful Ted Cruz was apparently a top student at Harvard Law, he has always been quick to distance himself from the organization, especially since the despised Barack Obama went to the same school less then a decade earlier. Back in 2013, at a conference sponsored by the Koch brothers, he said that “[Obama] would have made a perfect president of Harvard Law School.”
His reasoning:
“There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.”
This claim was discredited by Harvard Law, but it certainly cannot come as a surprise that Cruz wants to distance himself from an academic organization that is generally thought of as liberal. His voter base, after all, is not a particularly highbrow community.
With the Republican primaries ramping up, there will surely be a great deal of anti-intellectual musing coming from each candidate. There will be talk of how those elitist “harvard faculty” members are disconnected from the common people up in their ivory tower, and how they just don’t understand the real America.
Mike Huckabee, who is expected to run for president, summarized this view on “The Daily Show” earlier this year: “Theres a real disconnect between people that live in the bubbles of New York, Washington, and Hollywood, versus the people who live in the land of the bubba’s…theres a big difference between people who are well educated and people who are smart.”
just who is he referring to as well educated and smart that would bother to vote for the faux religious charlatan of the party hopefuls, if they did then they are not the ones he's talking about. those outside of the republican rodeo know their intent is to keep dumb and oblivious to what is being done to them while they partake of the poisonous red meat and drink the tainted tea, and they all look forward to the next trough filling.
Indeed, anti-intellectualism has quite a storied history here in America — from evangelical preachers of the 19th century like Billy Sunday saying “college graduates are going as fast as they can straight to hell,” to Joseph McCarthy smearing every left-wing intellectual he could find. When it comes to alienating and demonizing thinking individuals, Christian’s and conservatives have always lead the way. And in the modern Republican party, anti-intellectualism has long been a common theme.
America’s culture of anti-intellectualism can be traced back to the mid-18th century, when a schism occurred within puritan colonies. Originally, the puritans were very supportive of intellectuals, and founded top universities like Harvard and Yale. The 19th century Professor of American history, Moses Coit Tyler, wrote about Puritan intellectualism: “In its inception, New England was not an agricultural community, nor a manufacturing community, nor a trading community: it was a thinking community; an arena and mart for ideas; its characteristic organ being not the hand, nor the heart, nor the pocket, but the brain.”
In the mid-18th century, however, what would later be coined “the great awakening” spread across colonies, and then to the west and south. Religious leaders began preaching with greater zeal and spontaneity, trying to reach out to the poor and uneducated masses. Certain denominations, particularly the Methodist and Baptist Churches, emphasized recruiting the common people, and therefore grew rapidly. In embracing the common people, the churches also embraced a kind of hostility towards eastern elites and intellectuals.
this gives you a better incite into why they hate Pres. so much. back in the day we used to say "the scariest most feared thing for a White man was an educated Black man. that is why they move so quickly to nip it in the bud whenever one rose and was noticed by other Black People because they know they are on the clock when an educated Black man that knows exactly what they are doing is perceived to be the one that will expose them, Pres. well he's done it but with their help looks like the smart ones aren't so smart after all.
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