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  Re: Scientific illiteracy in boards of education  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 10 Nov 2012 11:27:20
Message: <509e8068$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/9/2012 10:43 PM, Warp wrote:
> Patrick Elliott <kag### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> People like me and Jim, yes, but their "supporters" have been actually
>> caught, as of Obama's reelection, stating that they are considering
>> leaving the horrible, socialist, etc. US, to move back to Europe.
>
> It sounds like those people who, when the new healthcare system (kind of)
> was ratified, threatened to move to Canada.
>
> So US's healthcare system was made slightly closer to that of Canada, and
> because that was such a horrible thing, they threaten to move to... Canada.
> Makes perfect sense.
>
> Btw, there seems to be an irrational fear of "socialism" in the US. Do they
> even understand what "socialism" means? Or is it to them just something
> vague and scary, exactly like "witchcraft" or "satanism"? No need to even
> know what exactly it is; it's enough to know that it's something "scary".
>
Generally, when asked what they think it is, or have things that are 
described to them, they don't have a clue. I seriously think they just 
imagine it means we will elect Stalin, or some Chinese guy to office, 
and start plotting to kill James Bond with a giant laser, or something...


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