Idiot du Jour

I hadn't realized that Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky was such a moron. Responding to the events in Charlottesville:

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.  Photo:Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons

“When you go back a couple of hundred years, in most instances the only textbooks that were in our public schools were in the Bible,” Bevin claimed.

“And it’s interesting that the more we’ve removed any sense of spiritual obligation or moral higher authority or absolute right and wrong, the more we’ve removed things that are biblically taught from society, the more we’ve seen the kind of mayhem that we were just discuss[ing],” he continued.

I suppose I can't expect a "Christian" like Bevin to understand the basis of morality. It's only to be expected, all things considered, that he'd be sympathetic to a bunch of white supremacists.

Hemant Mehta had the perfect response:

“And why are we trying to replicate our education system from hundreds of years ago,” Mehta added.

Because those were the good ol' days?

And Bevin's solution to violence in our cities:

Bevin’s official plan to reduce an epidemic of violence in Louisville’s troubled West End was for people to walk the neighborhood praying for “two to three times a week during the next year.”

“The weekend following Gov. Matt Bevin’s prayer plan was marred by violence, leaving four dead in just three days,” the Courier-Journal noted.

Nine additional homicides have been committed in Louisville since that tragic weekend.

Real effective.