Alabama-The heart of stupidity

The Heart of Dixie and the state where I was born and raised, Alabama is when it comes to looks and rural area can be paradise on earth, but when you count in poltics, education and fundamentalism you are looking at one of the most backwater places in the U.S.A and the developed western world.

Do you think I'm making this up. Look at this

http://http//www.timesdaily.com/article/20080714/NEWS/807140324?Title=State-dropout-rate-43rd-in-the-nation

One of the highest in the nation. I hear the oldest people in this state saying absolute stupid things everyday. They have no idea about the political, social or religious climate outside the American South. During the election I had to try to tell people that Obama was not a Muslim and that not all Arabs and Muslims are terrorists. A lot of them just want to live their lives like everyone else. They just rolled their eyes at me, Like I'm an idiot.

I'm I terrible speaker so I am bad at arguments and more often than not am to shy to speak, because of the pacifism my parents raised me with. When people come over I have to go into another room with just to not scream when she discusses politics. I feel like I'm trapped in a sea of ignorance

Alabama one of the poorest states in the Union supports complete free market and little social programs. If the Alabama people only truly understood the economic systems instead of blindly listening to politicans quoting the Bible and wearing patronism on their sleeves and actually looked at the political climate in Europe and Canada and get rid of that cold war propaganda memories would discover that the free market hurts them.

The complete free market keeps the working class ,the backbone of Alabama, losing jobs by giving them to India and China. It gives workers terrible benefits and does not provide the insurance most Alabamians need. It keeps the the poor and working class in lower positions with pure social Darwinism. Constantly keeping the children of the wealthy ahead of the poor by not giving them benefits for college or decent insurance.

Speaking of Health Insurance most Alabamians are against the 'commie system of universal health care' despite the fact every single developed western nation except the U.S.A has it and if you call the Universal health care systems 'commie' that means are military and road service are 'commie' as well, but I don't see the conservative trying to get rid of that.

But then again I guess the radical conservatives need that the military to rape Middle Eastern nations for oil instead of taking care of their own people. Alabamians have some of the worst private insurance in the country especially the poor, because the companies will drop you like a rock, because they know you're to poor to do anything to them.

I know it happened to my family. How is this democracy and a free country?

They watch faux news and believe the death panel crap. You would think a state in such bad shape would want more progressive policies, but know they scream 'commie' at it and half they time the don't know what communism and socialism is. I know they call me one all the time and when I quizzed them and what it means they can't explain it formally.

I'm personally I social democrat/Center-left by international political scale and disagree with the far left as much as I do with the far right.

On Religion, Alabama is a fundie state. You can not buy a sex toy in this state, but you can practically by a gun in a dollar store. The average Alabamian man is more likely to vote to protect his guns than the education of his children.

Here Christian means Good person. If you're not one to hell with you! I heard extremely cruel things said about an atheist women that had cancer I wanted to come out and scream my heathenism to the world, but kept my mouth shut. It was my parents saying these cruel things and we're the 'evil atheist' are the bad guys.

I wonder if they know that atheists make less than one percent of the prison population. I wonder if they knew that most secular nations that have a wiling atheist populations have lower crime and unemployment rates and higher marks in class.

Yes, I am angered by the red necked nature of my state and the ignorance of economics,religion and social problems. I know far more about the economy, poltics and history than most adults in this state. What's worse their seems to be a pride about this 'ignorance' like their somehow genuine and more american than all the others.

It's truly disgusting