Lyzko: Outside the major urban areas of the US, (incidentally I GREW UP in rural PA partly!), most folks out there, nothin' against 'em as folks, believe neither in evolution nor in the prospect that it, along with science, should be taught in high schools!!! Add to that, foreign language programs being cut right and left, geography being subsumed by 'world history'..... Sorry to burst your nationalistic bubble, but the sad facts clearly speak for themselves. Where have you been? I'm as patriotic as the next man, but it's BECAUSE I love this country, what it once was, do I dare criticize it so stongly. One can love one's parents, yet also be loveingly critical of them, can't one?!
I'm not saying you shouldn't criticize or that you're unpatriotic or anything of the sort. Scratching my head on how you come to the conclusion that I'm remotely suggesting such. But, anyway...
My criticism of your post was that you made a claim that by virtue of Santorum being an American he is pig-ignorant, because he is a reflection of his electorate. You said that such is incontrovertible logic. My criticism is your "incontrovertible logic." I fail to see any logic in it, let alone it being incontrovertible. To use your "incontrovertible logic": you, Lyzko, an American from rural PA, are pig-ignorant with no knowledge of geopolitics, geography, etc. BTW, I'm not saying you are--I don't know you and haven't had the pleasure of discussing geopolitics/geography/etc. with you.
Also, your claim that most folks, outside major urban areas, don't believe in evolution and that science shouldn't be taught is a tough one to buy. What are you basing your information off of? I'm not denying that there are folks who believe that--I personally know some; but, just because there are some who believe such doesn't mean that their neighbor believes the same.
This isn't meant as anything malicious toward you as a person, but I think the unsupported opinion that is passed as fact and logic as you put forward as incontrovertible is the shortcoming of the topic of this thread, the OWS movement. There are certainly things that the citizenry should be railing against, but what seems to be the animus of ows is unintelligible and baseless. If OWS were railing against crony capitalism and occupying DC instead of Wall Street, I'd pay attention. Instead what we get is a whole bunch of illogical, scatterbrained, unsupported, platitudinous rants and slogans that indict not Wall Street as corrupt but the intelligence and veracity of the protesters.
I agree that our schools are not doing a good job--especially the urban public schools, but many of the private and suburban public schools do good jobs in educating their students. When you look at the data from OECD that show American students lagging, they are not including 12% of the student population (the roughly 6 million private school children) in their stats. If you add them into the equation the picture isn't as bleek. But, I do ackowledge that our urban public school system is severely broken.
BTW, no need to apologize for bursting my nationalistic bubble, it was bursted many years ago :)
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