The Perpetrators
“I’m not a doctor, I just play one for HHS.” ―RFK, Jr. to J. Goodman.
“The treatment for measles is chicken soup and vitamin A.” ―RFK, Jr.
“It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’”―RFK, Jr.
“Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did.”—Elon Musk
“Now people will buy St. Louis Champagne” ―Pres. Trump to J. Goodman after threatening 200% tariff on EU alcoholic products
The Philistines
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.” ―Isaac Asimov.
“Our age is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds,” ―Julian Benda, The Betrayal of the Intellectuals (1927)
“America Can’t Be Great if America Is Stupid” ―Frank Bruni
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” ―Stephen Hawking
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” ―James Madison
“Anti-intellectualism is hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of education, philosophy, literature, art, and science, as impractical, politically motivated, and even contemptible human pursuits. Anti-intellectuals present themselves and are perceived as champions of common folk—populists against political and academic elitism—and tend to see educated people as a status class that dominates political discourse and higher education while being detached from the concerns of ordinary people. Totalitarian governments manipulate and apply anti-intellectualism to repress political dissent.” ―Anti-intellectualism, Wikiquote
“History is bunk.”—Henry Ford (1916).
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YES!
Yes, AND: when considering why the Dems are no longer the home of America’s working class, understand that working people view Dems as an “educated people ..that dominates political discourse and higher education while being detached from the concerns of ordinary people.”