re: #259 LudwigVanQuixote

And yet, America must find a way to diminish the influence of the stupid, self righteous, uneducated and slightly insane, base who resents all the many people who are smarter and better educated.

The sane people really need to realize that this is a culture war between the educated and the not educated. There are plenty of educated GOP types who stand to profit working for the other side and stirring it all up. There is either going to be a strong and cohesive backlash from the educated classes, that is framed to communicate to the uneducated, or we will see a Palin Presidency.

My gf was telling me the other day about a study she’d read showing that the more you try and prove someone wrong using empirical data, the more entrenched they become in their own false beliefs. You just can’t win.