Neil deGrasse Tyson illustrates the decline of science in America.

From 2000 to 2010, those are the Bush years folks.

Just in case you imagined that it did not matter all that much who was in the White House, these illustrations demonstrate a quite compelling argument that it most certainly does.

And it is no wonder, when Republicans are of the mindset, recently voiced by Rick Santorum, that higher education "indoctrinates" students into accepting progressive ideas.

Get a load of this, and see if you cannot recognize the clue about what is REALLY happening in college classrooms that seems to have escaped Santorum's irrational mind.

After saying "we've lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry," Santorum told a Naples, Florida, audience that "we've lost our higher education, that was the first to go a long time ago." 

"It's no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college," said the former Pennsylvania senator. "The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure that there wasn't one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?" 

He continued: "If they taught Judeo-Christian principles in those colleges and universities, they would be stripped of every dollar. If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly give them. Because you know 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it."

Now do you understand WHY Republicans fear education, and are trying to systematically destroy access to it in his country?

It is not hyperbole to make the case that if you want a smarter, better educated, country, that you need to vote Democrat.  Sadly the proof of that is everywhere you look.