re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Conservative anti-intellecutalism goes all the way back to colonial days. That said, those in charge are not the ones who don’t understand what they’re saying.

It is a vaunted American tradition, born out of our 18th and 19th-century technical and cultural inferiority complex regarding Europe.

Our national self-image was based on seeing ourselves as being morally superior to those intellectually more advanced but effete and decadent Europeans, slavery and Manifest Destiny notwithstanding…