I started following politics when I was about 14 years old (Nixon-Kennedy), and I have always been struck by the fact that the "educated class" seems to think they are smarter than the guys who didn't go to college or, perhaps, even graduate from high school.
My personal experience has been that I have met wonderfully intelligent people who never made it past 8th grade, and I have met lost-in-space-cadets with PhDs. Having graduated means you may have more education (not all graduations are truly earned), but it is no indication of intelligence.
Regardless, this is a great article describing the way that the Liberal Elitists seek to reassure each other of the superiority of their positions, notwithstanding the fact that they can't convince a simple majority of the American public that they are right.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&sub=AR
All the best,
Hags
3 comments:
From the article.
As we are busting brother Rich, I think, gosh, if I were to site a poll, like he did, just recently, I just might mention that it was commisioned by the daily KOS!
Markos Moulitsas, publisher of the influential progressive Web site Daily Kos, commissioned a poll, which he released this month, designed to show how many rank-and-file Republicans hold odd or conspiratorial beliefs -- including 23 percent who purportedly believe that their states should secede from the Union.
Today the leader of the Democratic Party is a brilliant law professor who was President of the Harvard Law Review and received his undergraduate degree from Columbia.
The top Republican today is an intellectual lightweight as described by fellow Republicans that know her well and worked intimately with her during the presidential campaign.
These two individuals put this question in stark relief. I don't think the relative intelligence of the parties membership is as wide a gap as their parties leaders, but it is illustrative. An ignorant populist could not lead the Democratic Party today. An intellectual would be rejected by the Republicans.
This is not to say that all Republicans are idiots. Clearly not. I enjoy reading Buckley, Gingrich and Buchanan, though I rarely agree with them. What matters is that the Republican base rejects such people. Intellectualism is eschewed in Republican circles and Sarah Palin will give them a speech that leaves them with flush faces and wobbly legs.
I'd love to hear an explanation of that from a Republican poster courageous enough to remain on this vigorous political blog.
Why are conservatives so arrogant that they send you articles to read like your dad putting Wall Street Journal articles in with your allowance check? No one writes articles about how condescending Republicans are, because they scream so loud when the logic of their arguments fail that calling them condescending seems too subtle. Besides isn't 'condescending' one of those long professorial words that demonstrates that the user is out of touch with the common man -- an unsung hero, who is obviously a Republican, a man who is never hoodwinked into voting against his own interest. (Jim G: Can you recognize this as the mirror image of something?)
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