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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 02:31 PM Original message |
AlterNet: How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America |
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That Is Quite Enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. My brother's a self proclaimed Anti-Intellectualist. It drives me crazy. |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. It started with GHWBush when he called Dukakis a 'Harvard brainiac" |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 02:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Daddy Bush went to Yale... |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. It goes farther - back to Spiro Agnew |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 05:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Wow. I didn't know any of this. Thanks for informing me. |
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Phredicles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 12:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. This country has loved its strong, stupid men at least as far back as |
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MBS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
4. this really struck a chord. |
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MonteLukast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Amen to that! |
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DogPoundPup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. "lazy" is as lazy does ... W supporters and McBush supporters just turn on their hate talk radio |
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Truth4Justice (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 08:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. The "Stupidites" take their marching orders from Rush, Savage, Hannity. No need to think, just do it |
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BB1 (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 04:10 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Sounds like: Befehl ist Befehl! |
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MonteLukast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. Anti-intellectualism starts so slowly and innocently. |
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noel711 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 03:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Being informed and educated is labeled as 'elitist,' |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-16-08 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
10. Nancy on Ronald Reagan's intellect: |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
12. When you don't know anything you can believe what you want. |
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creeksneakers2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
14. Interesting interview |
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bulloney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 07:46 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. That's part of the arrogance the world perceives the U.S. as having. |
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Naturyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
17. Intellectuals have always been a problem for these regimes... |
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