The hostility is towards those self defined “intellectuals” who are elitists and think they are entitled to make our decisions for everyone else.
Those are the bastards we despise.
That post was so on the friggin money I had to repost it. Thanks. And your prize is this delightful destruction of the elites: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/palin_v_pundits.html
Let me re-post it without the grammatical problem...
There is no hostility towards smart, educated people.
The hostility is towards those self defined “intellectuals” who are elitists and think they are entitled to make decisions for everyone else.
Those are the bastards we despise.
The classic work in that space is Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed. I recommend it highly. Written in the mid-90s, it is still very, very much applicable today.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social/dp/046508995X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331246795&sr=8-1