Reply #49: Do you know the meaning of the term [View All]

[Jamastiene]

fundy?

Fundamentalists (fundies for short) believe that:

Unemployment - People who are out of work are lazy. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, but we are going to severely limit the sale of boots with straps.
Health Care - It's all the patient's fault if they get hurt on the job or get a disease. BTW, they also believe that disease is punishment from God for being a sinner. They blame malpractice insurance for the high cost of health care. Never mind the fact that malpractice insurance wouldn't be so expensive if doctors didn't do some of the totally irresponsible and sometimes downright stupid things like leaving gauze in the wound when they stitch a person up after surgery and lasering their initials on a woman's womb while performing surgery and amputating the wrong foot because they aren't paying attention to what they are doing and ignoring a patient's symptoms until it is too late to do anything about the cause of those symptoms.
Education - You are right. They do care about education. They care so much they want to dismantle the public education system when it is because of them it isn't working like it should. Ever heard of the "Bell Curve"? That only still exists in this day and age so they can say integration was a bad idea because they insist on keep the myth alive that black children aren't as smart as white children. On this key issue, I recommend that you take a look at the current state of the Charlotte Mecklenburg School system and the debate surrounding what is basically an attempt to re-segregate the public schools. That situation is a prime example of how they are basically fighting over integration and trying to reverse it when the real problem is that they won't fund it properly or distribute the funds evenly between white neighborhoods and black ones and poor neighborhoods and more affluent ones. That reminds me of another position the fundies take. They don't believe in supporting public school budgets. They always cut funding to public school when they are in a position of power and can. It never fails.

I think you are talking to a moderate if you think they really care, because a fundy believes what I just explained to you. And they believe those points in lock step with every other fundy across the country. There is no dissent among fundies.