They aren't disqualified by any thinkers you would want to listen to, but yes, in general they are. Americans, in broadly general terms, aren't interested in n

They aren't disqualified by any thinkers you would want to listen to, but yes, in general they are. Americans, in broadly general terms, aren't interested in non-American things. Or intellectual anything. So yeah, combine those two together and you get the worst of those two general trends.