True as much as how far the Democrats have strayed since the 60s. The one thing that struck me is that we need to take back the term intellectual, as well. These academic leftists are not intellectuals, they are ineffectuals.
>>> we need to take back the term intellectual, as well. These academic leftists are not intellectuals, they are ineffectuals.
Intelleftuals.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb appropriately refers to them a IYIs — intellectuals yet idiots.
The IYI has been wrong, historically, on Stalinism, Maoism, GMOs, Iraq, Libya, Syria, lobotomies, urban planning, low carbohydrate diets, gym machines, behaviorism, transfats, freudianism, portfolio theory, linear regression, Gaussianism, Salafism, dynamic stochastic equilibrium modeling, housing projects, selfish gene, election forecasting models, Bernie Madoff (pre-blowup) and p-values. But he is convinced that his current position is right.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.oog6w3dzc
intellectual’s are open to debate the current democratic party has very few intellectuals. most of those that feel they have been educated within the democratic party mistake indoctrination with education. even though there are more democrats then republicans the party is disintegrating because of the inability to produce liberals with the capacity for leadership. I personally believe that the democratic party is in the process of disintegrating and eventually will lose control of both California and new York in the next ten years