[gcruse]

Given that the average leftist is a barely verbal barbarian, why do so many conservatives not relish our own cultural superiority?

Check your premise.  Academia teems with leftists who may be wrongheaded, but they are highly verbal, intelligent people.  If conservatives aren't smart enough to take the commanding heights of education, their impact on culture will be areas the leftists see as unimportant.  I'm not sure what conservative culture is, but if it is intolerance, religious bigotry, statism, and eager to surrender liberty for security, then it's not superior.

[epigone73]

"Academia teems with leftists who may be wrongheaded, but they are highly verbal, intelligent people."

But these same types orient their lives, and wish to orient ours as well, by a set of unexamined beliefs. we must not fall into the same disorder.