“It’s incredibly cynical to think you can win an election without having a thoughtful intellectual discussion with the country, thinking you can just scare people into voting for you.”
.... exCUSE me????
I think we’re seriously sick and tired of “intellectuals”, especially those who deem themselves to be so.
Yes, it’s “anti-intellectualism”. And we’ll define “intellectual” as Dr Thomas Sowell defines them - people whose sole “product” in life is ideas; ideas which the “intellectuals” themselves do not have to experience the consequences of...
“Intellectuals” whose worldview includes the idea that they are superior and have a right and duty to make decisions for other people...
Yes, we’re sick and tired of those people. Yes, we’re “anti-intellectual”.
We are, however, pro-achievement. We are pro-elite. We are anti-elitIST.