The celebration of ignorance and the denigration of knowledge as "elitist"

[Laurian]

were hallmarks of the Trump campaign. Trump's appointments and the early actions of the GOP congress are doubling down on that dangerous philosophy.

It's going to take a long time to reverse this disheartening development.

This is worse than I ever expected.

[whathehell]

1. Return of the "pointy headed intellectuals" trope.

George Wallace rides again.

[elleng]

2. Been part of American 'culture' for a long time.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-of-an-america-in-my-children-s

Emphasized now.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

3. Was called an elitist. Mind you, I'm a social worker who works with the poorest/sickest population.

But since I went to a somewhat "elite" university, have a master's degree and I'm a liberal I guess I'm considered an elitist.

[DesertFlower]

4. i worked as a legal secretary, and have been a

liberal dem my entire life. i resent being called an elitist. they called us that when obama ran in '08. said we were "latte drinking, volvo driving elitists". i've never been in a starbucks and i've been driving a mazda miata for 11 years.

i didn't graduate from college.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

6. I do like lattes - but seriously, for people who make more than I do, work in corporate jobs

and own homes or condos when I barely make ends meet to call me an elitist pisses me off. I could be be working in a high paid corporate job (and have) but choose to do something that is meaningful and help the weakest members of society because it is much more fulfilling. I would never go back to the meaningless jobs I used to have that only served to help the rich get richer. That is not what I wanted to do with my life.

[DesertFlower]

8. you can make money and not be an elitist. my

late husband was a "systems engineer" for IBM. worked his way up for 43 years. at age 60 he bought his dream car -- a porsche 911. he still wore dockers and most of his shirts came from old navy. he was far from "elite".

my primary care doc drives a honda civic with 200,000 miles on it. said "i'm not the type to drive a BMW or mercedes". he was a fan of hillary.

[benld74]

5. Idiocracy the movie becomes life

[edhopper]

7. If it's worse than you thought it would be

you weren't paying attention.

It's going to be far worse than this.