Posted on 11/23/2004 7:43:55 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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....A letter to the Coloradoan describes how the writer, who has a master's degree, in case we were wondering, researched the candidates carefully, thought deeply about the issues and then "voted mostly 'D' down the ballot." She then reads the minds of nearly 60 million people: "Those who voted on fear from Bush-backed spin or what their family does voted mostly 'R.' " Her master's must be in Art, emphasis on broad-brush techniques.
...column titled "Faith, not reason, gave Bush victory".... says, "It is now clear that for large number of Americans it is still as if modernity never actually happened, that irrationality, unreason, belief in mystical and supernatural hold sway."
Could all this be true, I wondered?.... I dragged my knuckles off the ground, placed my hand on my sloping Neanderthal forehead and mustered the few brain cells not occupied with maintaining respiration to ponder the thought.
Just then a pop-up ad appeared on my computer. "Do you think you're smart?" Not really, given my nitwit voting record..... I decided to take the IQ test... I plodded through, pausing only to wipe the drool from my keyboard...
....There it was, a snappy Certificate of Intellectual Achievement, evidence that I was no mental midget.
True-or-False: If only liberals are intelligent, and if I'm a popup-site-certified brainiac, then I must be a liberal. What else could explain my newfound smartness? Had my original lefty parents lost me as a baby while they were busy chaining themselves to old-growth timber, leaving me to be raised by a pack of feral but kindly conservatives? Perhaps.
....Maybe a willingness to denigrate the cranial capacity of conservatives doesn't signify intellect, but small-mindedness. Perhaps as we continue barreling into modernity, it's actually intelligent to pause and ask if everything that's possible is also ethical......
"Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields." -- Thomas Sowell
Count me in amongst the PhDs who voted for President Bush. Then again, I too have a hard science degree (Astrophysics), so maybe I'm not an anomaly...
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