{"id":16400,"date":"2021-07-29T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=16400"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T01:28:13","slug":"2021-07-29-republicans-hate-educated-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=16400","title":{"rendered":"2021-07-29 Republicans Hate Educated People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wrote:<br \/>Actually they hate educated people, because the more people know, the less likely they are to vote for Republicans.  Their whole premise is to treat people like mushrooms: keep them in the dark and feed them BS!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;They hate anything that makes sense, is positive, is good for the country, scientific, educational, &#8230;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;They couldn&#8217;t win elections if it weren&#8217;t for the uneducated.&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;It&#8217;s harder to brainwash educated people.&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;[Republicans] hate figuring things out.  Especially when it challenges everything they know [which is misinformation].&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;It has been the revenge of the dumb for 4 years.  Hopefully that&#8217;s behind us.&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;You have to keep people uninformed so they&#8217;re easy to manipulate and keep under control.  &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt; Trump&#8217;s Big Lie is a direct challenge to American Democracy. &gt;&gt; &#8211; Robert Reich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote:Actually they hate educated people, because the more people know, the less likely they are to vote for Republicans. Their whole premise is to treat people like mushrooms: keep them in the dark and feed them BS! &lt;&lt;They hate anything that makes sense, is positive, is good for the country, scientific, educational, &#8230;&gt;&gt; &lt;&lt;They<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=16400\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[1009],"class_list":["post-16400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16400"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16539,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400\/revisions\/16539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}