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| Contributor | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! |
| Last Edited | Jason Apr 16, 2010 12:25am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Paul E. Gottfried |
| News Date | Thursday, April 15, 2010 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Although Richard Hoste provides stimulating fare, by identifying the Blue States with the cognitively gifted and the Red States with the dullards who didn't make it into the big cities, his argument is nonetheless flawed. Let me begin by noting that the New York Times ran a story today about the Tea Party activists, who seem to be "wealthier and better educated" than ordinary Republicans. According to this report from an unfriendly source, these rightwing activists are both highly intelligent and "driven by ideology more than economic anxieties."
Richard is describing or lampooning ordinary Republican voters, who may be dumber than Thanksgiving Turkeys. He may also have in mind those movement conservatives who believe anything and everything that Bill Kristol, Sarah Palin, and Rich Lowry say about the world. But there is no reason to generalize from this about the Right or Left in general or about the respective inhabitants of Red and Blue States. The backbone of Democratic support in the Northeast is the visible minorities and the (predominantly Irish) Catholic vote. Jewish investment bankers and Asian neurosurgeons do not contribute much numerically to Democratic majorities anywhere. And the groups to which these professionals belong do not weigh heavily in the Democratic vote in most of the Blue States outside of California; while those who do contribute to this vote are mostly from low or middle-level achieving groups. By the way, would Richard like to argue that those who turned out for Obama rallies looked more intelligent than those who were attracted to Ron Paul? |
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