Hav­ing just com­pleted a fairly detailed and thor­oughly researched his­tor­i­cal study enti­tled “The Lost World of Thomas Jef­fer­son,” I am struck by sev­eral glar­ing areas for which I can­not help but shud­der in fear for the days ahead. First, Jefferson’s phi­los­o­phy and writ­ings (and the Jef­fer­so­ni­ans them­selves) are actu­ally sat­u­rated with the omnipresent impor­tance of God. Orga­nized reli­gion how­ever, was to Jef­fer­son, like a King or a Cor­po­ra­tion– i.e a vehi­cle for the tyranny of mankind.
Speak­ing of tyran­nies over mankind, I am dis­turbed by how igno­rant so many Amer­i­cans are about Amer­ica. The time to rec­og­nize the death of the Amer­i­can Repub­lic and it’s “dream” is omnipresent. I’d bet my home that not 1 of those 10 in favor read Jefferson’s volu­mi­nous mate­ri­als.
So...this is Amer­ica. We will reduce our­selves to igno­rant serfs while wav­ing around Her­itage Foun­da­tion copies of the “Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence,” watch tea par­ties abound who couldn’t tell you what the Boston Tea party was protest­ing, mean­while mak­ing Anti-Obama/I heart Glenn Beck signs and cham­pi­oning cor­po­rate deregulation...and what bet­ter agit­prop to dis­tract the chil­dren from the biggest cor­po­rate crime in his­tory against the U.S. (and the world) by chang­ing the Sex Edu­ca­tion cur­ricu­lum to focus on teach­ing stu­dents the proper way to per­form fel­la­tio on the Cap­i­tal­ist phal­lus...
...how long before our cal­en­dars have an offi­cial day of the apoc­a­lypse marked(with what­ever comes after blank as their brains...)

Huh, so it turns out col­lege is a com­mu­nist con­spir­acy:

Michi­gan Tea Partiers Share Rick Santorum’s Fears Over Obama’s Col­lege Push

Evan McMorris-Santoro Feb­ru­ary 25, 2012, 5:25 PM

TROY, MICHIGAN — Rick Santorum’s con­tention here Sat­ur­day that Pres­i­dent Obama’s plan to make col­lege more acce­si­ble is really a scheme to brain­wash peo­ple into becom­ing lib­er­als may have struck some out­side observers as a lit­tle odd.

But for the tea party crowd gath­ered here as part of an Amer­i­cans For Pros­per­ity rally, Santorum’s words about higher edu­ca­tion were right on point.

“Pres­i­dent Obama wants every­body in Amer­ica to go to col­lege,” San­to­rum said. “What a snob!”

San­to­rum started by say­ing some peo­ple don’t need to go to col­lege: “Not all folks are gifted the same way. Some peo­ple have incred­i­ble gifts with their hands.” He then sug­gested there was an sin­is­ter motive behind Obama’s push to get more Amer­i­cans in col­lege classrooms.

“There are good, decent men and women who work hard every day and put their skills to the test that aren’t taught by some lib­eral col­lege pro­fes­sor… That’s why he wants you to go to col­lege. He wants to remake you in his image,” San­to­rum said. “I want to cre­ate jobs so peo­ple can remake their chil­dren into their image, not his.”

Red meat, yes. But still not some­thing you hear a lot on the cam­paign (though Santorum’s used the line before). So I set out into the crowded ball­room to find out just what the peo­ple the AFP crowd thought of Santorum’s attack line.

Turns out they quite liked it.

“I thought that was bril­liant,” said Angie Clement of Com­merce, Mich. “Not every­body has to go to col­lege. We need garbage­men, we need welders, carpenters.”

“Every­body can’t be equal,” agreed Paul Mur­row of Mil­ford, MI seated nearby. “Some­body needs to do the man­ual labor.”

Clement’s hus­band, Stephen, said San­to­rum was right on the mark when he said that Obama wants to send kids to get col­lege degrees so as to pro­duce more liberals.

...

They all agreed that col­lege can help some peo­ple — but they also agreed that uni­ver­si­ties are basi­cally social­ism factories.

“They try and dis­guise it with, you know, ‘equal oppor­tu­nity’…” Stephen Clement began.

“It’s com­mu­nism,” Mur­row said, cut­ting him off. “The pro­fes­sors are all teach­ing the kids…”

“Where does the social engi­neer­ing stop?” Clement jumped back in, fired up. “Does it stop after we send every­body to col­lege, or does it stop after we set their cur­ricu­lum and said, ‘these are the things you’re allowed to study?’ Does it become the Soviet Union?”

I think Ricky might be try to get some of that sweet sweet Thiel scratch (ok, prob­a­bly not, but who knows).