(gnarles barkley video removed… trying to find “badware” that made Google block the site)
Is that not a perfect video? Who hasn’t been through that?
In this Wall Street Journal article (somewhat rare liberal perspective for that paper), the populist, anti-intellectual movement of the GOP in the past couple of decades is dissected, and the death of the longstanding conservative intellectual tradition is announced. My thoughts, exactly:
How, 30 years later, could younger conservative intellectuals promote a candidate like Sarah Palin, whose ignorance, provinciality and populist demagoguery represent everything older conservative thinkers once stood against?
David Brooks noted correctly (if belatedly) that conservatives’ “disdain for liberal intellectuals” had slipped into “disdain for the educated class as a whole,” and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn’t care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole. There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself.
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