The Education Paradox

I knew, I knew
We were long overdue
For the devastation
Poor education brings:
Nobody wins!

It is two-thousand-ten
The results are in:
Audience for Glenn,
The Sharron Angle win,
The Ben Quail grin,
Ms. Sarah Palin
My patience is
Wearing thin…

Almost forgot Rush,
He too has
Quite an audience,
Their knowledge
To enhance…

Watch the news
And you will see
Fanatic views,
Absurd mentality
Absence of reason
Is this our society?



But think:
Who would have been
“W”s base?
Who would eat up
Fox’s News?
Or Palin’s tips?
Or O’Reilly’s “hits”?
Had Education Ruled.

It is clear
The Extreme Right
Could not strive
If education did.
That’s why they
Resort to pay
Lip service only
Act not accordingly.

Aug. 26 2010.

Comment: The Republican Party is giving in to its extreme elements and the extreme comes from the under-educated fringes. I think the leaders of the party don’t even like, or associate with that layer of society. They just use them. Because of the propaganda and the brainwashing, they (victims) are willing to stand up against their own best interests.

I live in "Red" State, AZ, where Education has been repeatedly shortchanged by the dominating Republican Party. My theory should be tested as far as a correlation between the quality and level of the public's education and the strength of the local GOP. I believe, as I say in my poem that the new GOP can only strive where the population is either uneducated or under-educated.

When science is depicted as a challenge to God instead of the means to get to know God (and a gift to humanity), we get shortchanged on critical thinking, reasoning and other skills that are necessary for Democracy to work.

If the GOP can only win by spreading lies and half truths, they have lost their integrity. As things stand, their vast special interest-related funds are spent shamelessly on misleading propaganda. The obscene amounts spent on shady candidates could eliminate poverty here at a time of need. But they are not in this to solve any problems, no. They are in this to enhance their power and the coffers of the Corpocracy they represent.