Because brilliant people move things forward by leaps and bounds. And anti-intellectualism has a proven track record of accepting failure in exchange for social

Because brilliant people move things forward by leaps and bounds. And anti-intellectualism has a proven track record of accepting failure in exchange for social control. Up until they get their asses kicked trivially when they try to push someone who hasn't slacked off. Why should bullshit be tolerated when it leads to waste and stagnation? That sort of attitude is why Detroit fell so hard along with many post industrial wastelands. They scorned higher education or going another direction and then their keystone economies collapsed.