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Preemptive Karma
So I'm a liberal because I'm well educated!
I guess that means on the flip side...conservatives are uneducated.
And because I'm educated...I'm supposed to wallow in the shame of it all, according to David Brooks:
Over the past two years, what we might loosely call the university-town elite has come to dominate the Democratic Party not just intellectually, but financially as well.
How dare you dogs live in a university town with well educated people! You elitists!!
Conservatives seem to have a very fundamental problem with people who are well educated. And what's worse...they sit in their stew complaining that liberals think they are stupid.
Hello?
(more after the jump)
When conservatives
set liberals apart as well educated and intellectual..and then work to rubber stamp those traits as a net negative, it encourages less education and less intellectuality. And when conservatives substitute religion for education, it pushes things down even more.
If someone spends the bulk of their formative years being told that getting a good education, exercising intellectuality and opening their mind to new ideas is "bad" and "elitist", they're not going to do it. So what's the alternative?
In some cases, it's unscrewing the cranium and doing an information dump courtesy of King James.
In other cases, there's a knowledge vacuum that's slowly filled up with whatever is on "Fear Factor" or "Who Wants To Marry My Dad?".
And this is what many Americans want us to aspire to. Because being educated and intellectual is bad.
It makes you liberal.