[Faith Presses On]

Really, I've just been reading his article and it's well worth the time and effort. He might turn into a knee-jerk liberal, but he's young and he isn't one right now:

Elites, real elites, might recognize one another by their superior knowledge. The smug recognize one another by their mutual knowing.

Knowing, for example, that the Founding Fathers were all secular deists. Knowing that you're actually, like, 30 times more likely to shoot yourself than an intruder. Knowing that those fools out in Kansas are voting against their own self-interest and that the trouble is Kansas doesn't know any better. Knowing all the jokes that signal this knowledge.

The studies, about Daily Show viewers and better-sized amygdalae, are knowing. It is the smug style's first premise: a politics defined by a command of the Correct Facts and signaled by an allegiance to the Correct Culture. A politics that is just the politics of smart people in command of Good Facts. A politics that insists it has no ideology at all, only facts. No moral convictions, only charts, the kind that keep them from "imposing their morals" like the bad guys do.

[taterjay]

I think I read about this smugness last night. Some lib saying, “ Do These people really want to follow literally what the Constitution says?” I say yeah, let’s try it for awhile.

[elcid1970]

I had to look up “amygdalae”. Better not to have known.

[marktwain]

The writer actually thinks. That makes him a very dangerous opponent.

He sees clearly what the “liberal” movement is today, and the danger that it is in.

What is bizarre is that he is sees himself as a marxist.