[NeoCaveman]

We the great unwashed are just too stupid to make the basic decisions of our daily lives and the educated few must pass laws to protect us from ourselves.

That is exaclty the way the nanny-staters think.

[maxwell]

"We the great unwashed are just too stupid to make the basic decisions of our daily lives and the educated few must pass laws to protect us from ourselves."

That is exaclty the way the nanny-staters think.

The thing is, dude, we may be unwashed, some of us in particular, bwahaha, but we ain't stoopid and uneducated. Many of us have college degrees (for whatever that's worth... OK back on track...) and other training. We are smart fairly-well-informed folks, we think through things as well as anybody. The thing IS, we don't come to kosher conclusions, we don't subscribe to intellectual chic, we don't grab onto the ideological flavor of the week in order to fit in a prescribed groove and escape castigation from the Powers That Be. It's people like us that provide a pragmatic, maybe even moral, plumbline to measure liberal folly against...

'Cuz of people like us
There's honky tonk music, long neck bottles
Rusty old pickup trucks
Oh at last call the lights go up
And its all because of people like us...

Anyway back on topic... Uhhhhh... That's all I got, I done used up all my three-syllable words for today...