The problem was, he addressed the comment to me and missed on both counts.
1. I'm less a libertarian than a social conservative at this point. Call me a Straussian without the cynicism.
2. With a college degree and some graduate study, I am not an "autodidact", either. Calling someone who's read a few books an "autodidact" is an insult, which was the whole point. That's why I didn't respond.
I didn't mean to imply that you WERE an autodidact; I just found it amusing that he considered such an apellation damning!
Despite the 7 years I spent in university, I certainly have read more than several times as much since I left the academy than I did while in attendance.
Every well-educated person is an autodidact, by necessity. ;^)