THIS is why Rick Santorum is against sending people to college... (RL, political)

[thistlechaser]

Sunday mornings, I turn the news on. After the news comes a Face The Nation-like show (This Week with George Stephanopoulos). Usually I'm too lazy to change the channel to something less political. Sometimes that is a good thing. Sometimes it's not.

I've known all along that Rick Santorum was someone I'd never vote for, but this is the first time I've listened to the man himself talk about his opinions. Oh. My. God. So scary-insane! He doesn't want kids to go to college, why? Because "liberal professors" "indoctrination" good conservative kids and brainwash them. No, Rick, that is the result of education, of seeing a bigger worldview than just your state or just this one country. (Edit: I've reread this paragraph a few times and I'm uncertain if it's implying something I don't mean. I do not mean that you cannot be right wing and intelligent. What I do mean is that knowledge makes hatred harder.)

When a president or America makes a mistake, a mistake that hurts people, he does not believe they should apologize. Arg! No matter your intent, if you hurt someone, even by mistake, how is apologizing not the right thing to do!

And one of the more scary things? He does not believe in the separation of church and state. Oh, he phrased it in not so black and white terms ("there's too much separation now, there should be more religion, more people of faith, in the government. People of faith should be in every part of the government..."). And of course, "people of faith" only means his faith...

And of course this sickening "religions are being bullied" line of crap. (Which, again, means HIS religion. Going to be defending Muslim folks anytime soon, Rick? When just minutes ago you said the president should NOT apologize for burning the Quran?)

I really, really wish I had more faith that this will come out okay. I think it will. The longer the Republican primaries go on, the more money they drain. Obama can just sit back and watch it all. I worry that people will believe it's a sure thing and not get out and vote though. I believe people might actually buy this stuff Santorum says and vote for him. Arg! Why can't we agree as a country to NOT move backwards! /worry /worry worry

PS: Please fix your spellchecker, LJ. No, I do not believe that every single word in every single post I've been making lately is spelled wrong. I'm not that bad at spelling.

Comments

[halogin.livejournal.com]

I recently re-read The Handmaid's Tale, which I described in a Facebook status as, "Rick Santorum's America". -_-

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I saw a joke about Santorum on some LJ comm: He's a perfect match for the times... of the 13th century.

Edit: Oops, I misremembered it. Here's the comment I was thinking of:

Someone on Bill Mahr's panel a couple of weeks ago said, "Santorum is current with all the most advanced thinking of the 13th century." Hit that nail.

[kaelash.livejournal.com]

Amusingly enough, as your token conservative... I'm so NOT voting for him in my state's primary. He's too far right. GASP. (Dear politicians: Please focus on economic and budget issues and not religion plzkthx.)

I honestly don't like any of them, but at least Mitt and Newt aren't quite bible-thumping as hard as Rick is on the campaign trail. WTB conservative that just wants to balance the budget and not try to make their religion a voting point. z_z

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I've collected a couple conservatives over the years! You're no longer alone. :)

There have been lots of news/radio stories running here about how the Republican party has changed (and how it's likely hurting the party). It used to be all about economy and spending, then it started in on morals and religion, and they drove a lot of folks out.

If a gun were held to my head and I had to vote for one of them, Mitt would be my choice, too.

[loup_noir]

Santorum creeps me out. Whenever I hear or read something from him, I go cold. His theocracy frightens me.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Seems like lately every election scares me, but this year's is going to be especially bad. (And I worry that the trend will continue and next election will be even worse...)

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

Okay I'm officially spamming you now with commentsssss but you're literally the only bit of politics I'm following right now, so keep it up because it's educational! XD

Reading this reminded me of my human geography course I took a couple semesters ago where we watched a video produced in Europe that interviewed a lot of Europeans of different ages and from different countries and the general consensus was that they think Americans are creepy religious. Which I found odd considering that Europe was the birthplace of so many religious sects. Things have apparently changed, I guess. Even more disappointing is that this country was founded on the idea that religion should be equal and free and.. yeah. If anyone like Santorum won I think we would officially alienate the rest of the world.

Also, his name just makes me nervous. I'm weird. Like he's not being very subtle about the fact that he's some sort of cult leader/evil doom overlord. It's like Marvel came up with it. e_e

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Comment spam is the best spam! If only LJ would behave so I could reply...

and the general consensus was that they think Americans are creepy religious.

That doesn't surprise me at all. A European original fic writer I follow had some Americans show up in her story, and they were all creepy religious. There were comment threads about that, and it was a really interesting read to see how they think about us. I kept wanting to reply WE'RE NOT ALL CRAZY!.

And agreed on his name. :/

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that I keep wanting to read his name as "sanitarium."

...and when I went to double-check and make sure I was spelling "sanitarium" right, Wikipedia says that's actually an alternate spelling of "sanitorium." Oh man. I realize he can't help his name, but... yeah.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

One day, after he's been elected and destroys the country, everyone will wonder why we didn't take the clue of his last name more seriously!