The Right’s Fear of Education: What I Learned As a (Former) Conservative Military Man

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5. Fear.

The Right is all about fear because that is what they feel when they do not understand something, or something does not fit in with what they have been led to think.
If you are educated, you are harder to control, for one. And worse, you are less likely to accept what you are told because that is what you have been told. You know Will Rogers "Herd of cats"?
Heave forbid someone can think for themselves, or has too many problems with the daily talking points because they are better educated. The Right doesn't like that. They prefer and operate on group think.
Is it any wonder the Right has denigrated Liberals for so long?
Liberals have a tendency to upset the neat world view of conservatives by bringing in a bit too many 'shades of gray' reality to their binary world for them to be able to handle properly... Until the talking points on that come out.