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I think finding an intelligent conservative/republican is harder than finding a truely progressive church.
There are quite a few here actually (Historian Dude - good example), some of the right wing extremists even mistaken us for some liberal retards (their words) , we do what we can to keep em in line but there are more of them (idiots)
You've made a valid point...I couldn't put my finger on what it is about the most recent couple of Republican Presidential candidates, but now I think I have the answer.
As of now, people are laughing at the conservative movement. Conservatives have allowed bigotry and malarky to permeate its narration for a while now.
Really? So when MSNBC did not air any black speakers at the RNC last week, that was because everyone at MSNBC are all Conservatives?
When was the last time ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/NYTimes/WaPO ever had Dr. Thomas Sowell on the air or write an opinion piece? He is black, Conservative, Harvard degree. What are they afraid of?
Unfortunately, throughout the history of the world, intellectuals and the educated have been hunted down and exterminated, periodically. Cambodia being one of the most prime examples. Soviet Union under Stalin being another. The Taliban being the current perpetrators. Generally when uneducated religious zealots gain power, exterminating what they believe to be the intellectual elite, is at the top of their agenda.
When I hear some of the right-wing anti-intellectual rhetoric, I fear because I happen to wear glasses.
The Republican Party was once very intellectual--think William F Buckley and Robert Taft. Anti-intellectualism on the conservative side emerged somewhere in the late 20-th century as a reaction to the emergence of over-educated, humanities-major PhDs supporting the liberal movement.
There's something to be said about BS/BAs trending conservative and post-grads trending liberal. Too much academia removes you from reality. Ideological politics--be it conservative, liberal, libertarian, or whatever--do not take into account real world events. Take for example Ron Paul; his ideas sound logical and fascinating, but they could never practically be applied and work. I still voted for him, tho, since the GOP will need to evolve toward his genuinely conservative ideas, just through more moderate/applicable policy.
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