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Heh. It's hard to find an article on the rise of anti-intellectualism in US politics that isn't anti-Republican.
by Flemlord 17y ago
Heh. It's hard to find an article on the rise of anti-intellectualism in US politics that isn't anti-Republican.
- calcnerd256 17y agoBut it can and should be done. Uniting two labels makes it harder to convert those who self-identify as the neutral one away from the negative one.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoIndeed. For many people on the left, intellectualism is an exclusive club, whose members must be the kind of folks described in Stuff White People Like. It must be fairly embarrassing that Republicans are still having internal debates on what their party really means, what the government's role should be in a crisis, how to come up with a compromise between socialized medicine and a generally capitalist economy -- while the left has become far more boring and monolithic. Meanwhile, the extreme libertarian right and the extreme authoritarian right has seen a resurgence online, while your typical extreme liberal sounds like his ideas are decades old (because they are).