>>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.
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>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 )
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>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.
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>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.

So you're wrapping yourself in a layer of godlike understanding of your opponents POV .
I'll stick with the cheap shots.

BTW I don't think the smug self-identification thing is the preserve of the left. Its human nature