Stephen Colbert, 14th Century Monk Santorum, ITT makes atheists

I guess Rick Santorum has never been to College Station, home of the Aggies at Texas A & M. The most conservative public university in America.

And Texas A & M is not alone in the gradual decline in liberal arts curriculum in higher education. It is not just engineering, agriculture, mining, science and technical colleges and universities that no longer require any courses at all in psychology, sociology, anthropology, art, history, English lit, political science, but most institutions of higher learning have been moving away.

Here I have to defend both Santorum and Romney.

First, Mitt Romney and the trees being the right height in Michigan. There is nothing wrong with using a little literary depth in a speech. It is how we see our TEAMS. So much is being made of that by my fellows I am embarrassed.  

Secondly, Rick Santorum who holds 3 college degrees – one more than that SNOB Barack Obama – is not really against higher education. Like all politicians he is just playing to his base of uneducated nitwits. After all, what is it that is so powerful that it drives working class Americans to vote Republican against their own self interest?

Sure race and religion (once called the Southern Strategy) are the prime movers which Country Club Republicans have massaged for a generation now – perhaps so much so that the beast they created may soon put them out of business. But snapping at the heals of all that ignorance which drives so much bigotry and intolerance are two interconnected issues.

1) The RESENTMENT working class Americans feel toward "smarty pants college edumacated know-it-all liberals"  (people smarter than them).

2) And the ANGER generated by the same smarty-pants liberals shaking their fingers in their faces telling them what they can and cannot say, be or do. (Political Correctness)

Race and Religion have been the major deterrent to equality, fairness and justice in American since its inception, but it is these last two issues that since 1979 – what we then called Reagan Democrats – has gained the GOP the political hegemony it enjoys today.