[weegee]

One of the more charming conceits of the Left is that conservatives (Republicans, the middle class) – actually, anyone who doesn’t embrace its worldview – are, well, stupid.

Yet to hear the left tell it, they have no ties with the Nazis because they believed in elitism and superiority while communists believe in the equality of the individual.

The Houston Comical is good for a couple of idiotorials and letters to the editor every year that explain the reason academic and journalist professions are bloated with liberals is because they are "smarter".

[Freedom4US]

Part of that is a bed of their own making. By rigidly controlling the terms of the Great Debate in the rarefied air of academia, they run into problems out in the Big Room. They have to give the illusion of entertaining contrary views, but only to serve them as objects of ridicule. Facts are like kryptonite, so must be suppressed, spun or ignored. I read the papers and watch their news blurbs though, simply because armed with life experiences and a little reverse engineering, the truth can still be discerned fairly quickly. Probably the same reason everyone read Pravda, without believing any of it.