American Individualism and excellence...hah, what a laugh it is that Republicans think they're standing up for such things.
I recall they were the ones who said numerous incredibly ignorant and insulting things about college, it was they who encourage people to not be individuals and to simply be one part of a Christian Congregation, and it was they who have slashed the education budget, ensuring our children cannot compete with Britain, France, and China's future children.
Republicans have long courted the lout, the inbred, the stupid, the poorly educated, those predisposed to being just cogs and unthinking pieces in the plans of others.
As a thinking man I have no place in such a dystopia made such that the most insipid, stupid Southerner can feel equal to what he deems the West Coast Elite to be.