>When the tea party gets itself elected you'll have government of the people by the people (who shop at Walmart) Our only hope is that the nuclear codes briefcase has a tricky combination so they'll never be able to open it.
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>They where going to call themselves Republican Resurgence but the spelling was a bit tricky.

This is exactly the kind of insecure elitist nonsense I'm objecting to. Don't you think it is possible that someone may take a political stand different from the Vision of the Anointed because of a genuine, informed difference of opinion or political philosophy and not through a lack of education or intelligence? ( while that is certainly not to say that those on the right are any more likely to be smarter or better just because of the positions they adopt )

It is the smug self-identification of the Left as smarter, better people that is so offensive , comparable to characterization by the righteously holy in non-secular religions being offensive in their implication that those who do not share their revelation are evil, blind, or less ethical.

Part of this is due to the nature of academia and the striving to think of oneself as not just correct (when often that would be a matter of actually defending ideas) but as "better" and "smarter" through identification with those perceived as defining those traits. It is an example of the kind of lemming-like group-think that is dangerous on any side of a political spectrum.