as if those who oppose him are uneducated and/or without wisdom.
Oppose whom? Scott Brown? Why would an "educated person" oppose him?
As an "inhabitant" of the Commonwealth, I can support either Scott Brown or the Democrat Machine in Massachusetts.
That machine is killing us, sucking all life, vitality, creativity, innovation from the people, penalizing us for our law-biding and economically-productive habits. It's getting so bad, the state has been losing population by the hundreds of thousands over the past several years. We are probably going to lose a Congressman in the redistricting following the 2010 census, just because of population loss.
When our most productive citizen/taxpayers are leaving in droves, this only exacerbates the "fiscal problem" here....
People who don't vote for the machine are hardly "without wisdom." Indeed, they might be among the wisest, sanest people left in "public debate" with respect to the critical issues facing our state and nation.
Although Left Progressives marginalize such people at every opportunity, to me they are the only ones who are really paying attention to the well-being of our society, in a genuinely intelligent fashion (i.e., by consulting with the actual historical human record, including their own). I have further concluded that neither the Dem machine in Massachusetts, nor the Obama Administration (with its codependents and enablers in the double-Dem Congress) has any clue about what it takes to constitute a just society.
David Horowitz has said that he never met a Left Progressive that had spent fifteen minutes of his life contemplating what it takes to constitute a "just society."
In case anyone is curious about what a just society is, the classical description is: A society that imposes only one rule/standard of justice on all its members, uniformly, without regard to person or station in life.
That is, members of the "aristocracy" (self-selected or appointed) and members of the "plebean class" (your ordinary "Joe") are subject to the same strict standard of justice. No exceptions. Your wealth and the advocacy of politically- or financially well-connected friends cannot make up for critical shortcomings in your own personal choices in life. Every human person bears that responsibility alone.
IOW, a just society does not regard groups (artificially selected for political reasons or however else constituted), but only individual human persons, as subject to law and ultimately justice under law. IOW, justice can only fall on individual persons. And it inevitably comes.
Cowering in some self-selected group gives one no cover against the judgment to come. It does not affect groups, only souls....
Certainly such behavior does not contribute to the present or future well-being of We the People of the United States, nor of our just responsibilities as sovereign citizens of our extraordinarily, historically, and naturally beautiful home state, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts....
What's "wise" about continuing to elect a "machine" from year to year, forever, to "run" things the people of the Commonwealth would rather "run" for themselves? With as little interference from "public officials" as possible??? Not to mention they're sick and tired of being endlessly fleeced financially (read: taxes, fees, whatever) by the State, in increasingly innovative ways, for no discernible public purpose....
Well, let's see about that "wisdom" thing. As distinguishable from being "intellectual" or "knowledgeable," the contrary being "uneducated," or simply "lacking in knowledge," or even preternaturally stupid.
As if your average every day human being could be said to be "lacking in knowledge" — at least those of whom who continue successfully to manage for themselves, their families, and their communities. They can only do this, of course, if the rules of the game don't change with every passing fancy (i.e., according to no rule the American people have ever seen before) of this administration and the double-Dem Congress that continues (against all reason) to champion and support the Usurper-in-Chief's wrecking-ball policies.
But Obama knows he has to "unsettle the rules of the game" in order to create "fear and uncertainty" — hopefully soon to result in "crisis conditions" — into which he and the federal government can intervene in order to "restore order."
Well, forgive me, but I do believe it is up to the We the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (to use John Adam's language, who wrote the Massachusetts Constitution) to restore the civil order. It starts as a "state-thing," but its ramifications from there project nationally....
I hope and pray my beloved native state of Massachusetts will set a trend. And that trend — joined by other states — sets up lawful conditions for the removal of the Usurper in some way or fashion. And "punishment" for his cohorts in Congress.
Which of course remains to be seen.
Put the dynamic duo of "wisdom v. knowledge" into whatever juxtaposition you want to, in the end "wisdom" is not equivalent to "reason," but is ineffably superior to it. For wisdom is the "value-added" to reason that comes only from experience, personal and social, as recorded from actual human history going back (arguably) 40 millennia by now and counting.
Obama's folks don't pay any attention at all to such matters. They are simply "inconveniences" that ought/must be "forgotten," or the people will continue to be "ungovernable" (from their point of view).
Anyhoot, anybody who has read this piece, and basically agrees with it, will probably be voting for Scott Brown next Tuesday.
What are your plans for next Tuesday, Chickensoup?