Rising GOP Presidential contender Rick Santorum said over the weekend, "President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob." Santorum believes that colleges indoctrinate their students and that Obama apparently wants to control their minds by wanting all Americans to pursue post-secondary education so that they can handle the jobs of the 21st Century. But, Obama negates that point on thought control with his penchant for conpromise.
What does this accusation by Santorum mean? It shows him to actually be a snob and an elitist who is out of touch with educated Americans. Santorum is the one who practices thought control. His children are educated at home, not public schools. Which means he has taught his children his own rigid ideas, including those on economic inequality, sexuality, and American Exceptionalism. Which means he wants them to think that it is all right for CEOs to make millions of dollars annually while laying off thousands of workers or to automatically despise President Obama. The things he probably did not or will not teach them about are those related to social justice, which tells us to take of the poor and the oppressed. Santorum also shows himself to be the biggest ally of America's most irresponsible corporations, who can get away with environmental degradation, human rights abuses, and excessive profiteering by hiding these problems from any uneducated American. Since schools have become obsessed with test-taking instead of creative or critical thinking, there are plenty of Americans that irresponsible corporations can hide their abuses. Educated and informed Americans are most often the ones smart enough to find these problems.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/27/1068825/-Rick-Santorum-calls-Obama-a-snob-for-wanting-people-to-attend-college?via=blog_1
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