THE DAILY FUDD: E132: "SPECIAL REPORT: Here's what I mean by 'Teabrainery.'"
Regular readers of my blog posts going back years know I speak often of "Teabrainery" or "Teabrainers." The reference should be obvious--namely, to the unsophisticated, often uneducated hick conservative-types that composed or mimic the post-2008 election "TEA Party" movement. Simply put, they are what happens when Jeff Foxworthy rednecks decide to get into "politicks. " (Misspellings are a distinctive hallmark of the movement--it's almost pathological with them.) "One-dimensional, one-layer" is a way of describing their analysis. Their lack of base academic knowledge prevents them from having perspective--hence, "one-dimensional"--and their academic laziness prevents them from seriously digging into a matter--hence, "one-layer." (And when they do go deeper, they stay one-dimensional.) They don't really relish reading books without pictures or doing research, and never really have done so on anything that d...