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I'm glad you brought that up. It really is funny to me that there are people who pride their 'common sense' over everyone else's fancy college degrees.
The funny thing about common sense, is that it was never really intended as a good thing. Back when the term was coined, 'common' referred to all things boorish and backwards. As such, 'common sense' refers to reality dumbed down to a level of simplicity that the layman can grasp.
About the NASCAR thing, I can't do it. I simply can't watch it. It's so, monotonous to me. Especially considering that I'm a person who can't even watch a whole baseball or football game. The only sport dynamic enough for me is basketball. I also watch the Olympic running competitons, but for god's sake, those don't take hours.
To each his own. One thing I have learned in my 50+ years on this earth is to be a little more tolerant. G** knows, I wasn't raised that way. But what should you care if someone wants to watch the Indy 500, or the Super Bowl, or the CU-Nebraska game or Olympic gymanstics or 12 years of club/high school gymanstics (as I did, and came to love it)?
And I beg to differ with you about "common sense". I think it means "any idiot would know this" reagardless of the topic. For example, any idiot would have enough sense to come in out of the rain. Different cultures differ on what is common sense, but that's a different topic.
No offense, but any person with an average IQ would think NASCAR is pretty lame, left turn, left turn, left turn, lap #345..left turn left turn left
turn, lap #480, left turn, left turn, left turn. Have not met many Ph'Ds who are NASCAR fans
So everybody that likes NASCAR is stupid?
Sounds elitist to me.
Yes indeed - a HUGE mistake on the part of the GOP.
The following statement is particularly telling:
"Republicans have alienated the highly educated regions -- Silicon Valley, northern Virginia, the suburbs outside of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Raleigh-Durham. The West Coast and the Northeast are mostly gone.
The Republicans have alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to the Democratic Party over the Republican Party at 4-1 rates. With doctors, it's 2-1. With tech executives, it's 5-1. With investment bankers, it's 2-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community."
I'm really surprised about the doctors. They're generally pretty conservative. I work with 5, there's only one who I think might give a penny to a Dem.
So what is the point? People who live in academia vote liberal?
They do..this isn't some huge and recent realization. This is old news.
People who get themselves schooled in a certain area (or city) tend to graduate and set roots in the same areas. With big universities tending to be in big cities...it just makes sense. Proff's and college kids are too busy hiding their noses in books and not reality. Those who can AFFORD to live in big cities (with millions left over) tend to have major guilt and vote liberal.
Just like those who make under $250k and vote for Obama based on the delusion that those who make $250+ are "rich". After a million I can see "rich" no matter where you live, but $250-300K where I live...nope.
Get over it. Or try living where I do (in a suburb of a major city) and thinking that $250K is huge. Do a little research...go find the website that tells you what one salary in Kansas would translate should the job be in NYC. MUCH BIGGER. Just to get by.
College is the first step. You need a PhD or several to even think anyone reveres you as someone with a clue.
Like most liberal/democrats.
A college degree or two and IQ is no indication of common sense or anything else.
The biggest morons I know have wasted too much money and time on masters degrees in library science, medicine and civil engineering...they can "think" a good game, but should reality reach up and slap them in the face...they've got nothing. They flounder and it's so pathetic to watch - have 4 of them in my family. One is crazy-Christian so I don't count her.
That's fine, tax me more...I'll donate less or nothing to the charities I have been donating to for years. Not my problem anymore. My kids come first. Not YOU or anyone else. Oh, and I'll find 10 ways to Sunday to hide more of my income. SORRY! Not my choice...yours. You'll get less out of me than you did before should Obama and his socialism be elected (and no dictionary truly defines any life-style...so get over that too).
To each his own. One thing I have learned in my 50+ years on this earth is to be a little more tolerant. G** knows, I wasn't raised that way. But what should you care if someone wants to watch the Indy 500, or the Super Bowl, or the CU-Nebraska game or Olympic gymanstics or 12 years of club/high school gymanstics (as I did, and came to love it)?
And I beg to differ with you about "common sense". I think it means "any idiot would know this" reagardless of the topic. For example, any idiot would have enough sense to come in out of the rain. Different cultures differ on what is common sense, but that's a different topic.
Most people would use that definition of common sense, but the "education is unnecessary" crowd use the term to mean, we know what to do about just about everything based on our common sense.
The reason why these "brainy" cities vote democrat is because these larger cities also have alot of welfare families and black and hispanic voters. Everyone knows that these groups vote heavily democrat. If you think that you can convince intelligent people that dems are smarter than conservatives you are wrong. The NY times has very little credibility, that is why readership is down
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