The Rubes and the Righteous.

We discussed (in Liberal moral superiority) the ideas of Ace of Spades and Dr. Sanity about liberals' belief in their intellectual and moral superiority.

BlooInBloo, on DemocraticUnderground.com, pretty much drives the point home about those superior libs:

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." (H.G. Wells)

That is to say:

Stupid citizens [the uneducated] -> catastrophic governance [by our political opponents] -> stupid citizens [the uneducated] -> ....

The GOP has a vested interest in minimizing the quality of US education, and generally making people [who disagree with us] as stupid as possible. They know perfectly well that republicans [sic] won't be elected by an intelligent electorate [hint: us].

It's now gotten so far, the people are so dumb [unlike us], that they [Red Staters] willingly participate in the election of more "catastrophic governance" people [e.g., Shrub], and willingly participate in their own stupidity.

Breaking this chicken-egg cycle is the REAL challenge [for certain enlightened people], I think.

"Google "quote of the day" captures the essence of America's problems..." DemocraticUnderground.com, 6/10/06.