re: #44 ClaudeMonet

IMO this is an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. The intellectuals, by spending years trying to mobilize the masses by talking down to them and attacking the institutions in which the masses believed, have succeeded in turning the masses away from the very education and intellectualism that created and motivated the educated.

I am NOT saying that nativism and anti-intellecutalism are in any way correct or justified. I am saying that years of telling people how they should live, what they should believe, etc., without consideration for the core beliefs of those being lectured to, have boomeranged on the intellectuals.

Agreed. Too many intellectuals mock religion and the traditional values in which many people put great stock. If you attack a man’s beliefs, don’t be surprised when he refuses to support you or the institutions that produced you.