Rick Santorum: Education turns US students into Communists !

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Santorum is a hack who knows nothing about education. His politics depend upon reciting pre-packaged 'talking points' and makes the mistake of believing that those talking points have any intellectual basis worthy of expounding as great and undeniable truth.

[pbrower2a]

Education makes one a Commie if --

1. One lives in a Commie system and sells out after finding that going along with the Party is good for one's career, or

2. If one lives under a terribly-inequitable social order that allows intellectual freedom but no reasonable means of challenging the severe inequity.   

But the educated elite don't matter that much in deciding whether a country goes Communist. Alienated educated intellectuals have no power unless they can stimulate the masses to believe that the ruling elite is their shared enemy. Nobody can ever convince illiterate people that Communism is good by reading from Das Kapital, a tome too abstruse for peasants and sweat-shop workers to consume. No, Commie rhetoric has to be reduced to simple and memorable slogans relevant to the hardships that the common people know all too well.

Rick Santorum is a fool.