Maybe if the professor and his colleagues stopped treating Tea Party members as demons, he’d get to know a few of them.
I have invited intelligent liberals with more degrees than a thermometer to meeting, and they won't go. One noted he might if no one in his social circles didn't find out.
Cowards, one and all....
They would have to challenge their epistemological basis when they find everyone in the room has as many degree's, kids, wealth etc and they have more in common than they ever flippin' believed....