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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Thinkerbell OK. Maybe not. But we werent talking about politicians. We were talking about supporters/voters..Or were you trying to shift the subject. I an perfectly happy to concede that American politicians struggle to be second rate on a good day. Its just that the Republican leadership raises this to Olympic levels..😷
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@whowasthatmaskedman
I don't agree that Republican politicians are significantly worse than Democrats.
In fact, when it comes to lying, for example, nothing the Republicans have done recently comes close to the years-long deception about Biden's cognitive condition by Democrats.
I'm not saying Republicans wouldn't lie just as much, given the same circumstances, but the fact is that they didn't.
Therefore, I think favoring Democrats by the more "educated" classes has no sound justification, Kemo Sabe.
I don't agree that Republican politicians are significantly worse than Democrats.
In fact, when it comes to lying, for example, nothing the Republicans have done recently comes close to the years-long deception about Biden's cognitive condition by Democrats.
I'm not saying Republicans wouldn't lie just as much, given the same circumstances, but the fact is that they didn't.
Therefore, I think favoring Democrats by the more "educated" classes has no sound justification, Kemo Sabe.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Thinkerbell Again. Lying is not the subject. Its education V political leanings.😷
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@whowasthatmaskedman
And I just got through explaining why I think the political leaning of the "educated" classes is not justified; I don't deny it exists.
It's simply a case of a hubristic and fundamentally undemocratic attitude, "we know much better than those deplorables."
In Weimar Germany, a majority of university faculty, students, as well as civil servants and judges were right-of center, or outright nationalist. We know what that made possible.
And we would do well to remember where a majority of the intelligentsia in Russia stood politically, just before the Revolution, and what they subsequently produced.
And I just got through explaining why I think the political leaning of the "educated" classes is not justified; I don't deny it exists.
It's simply a case of a hubristic and fundamentally undemocratic attitude, "we know much better than those deplorables."
In Weimar Germany, a majority of university faculty, students, as well as civil servants and judges were right-of center, or outright nationalist. We know what that made possible.
And we would do well to remember where a majority of the intelligentsia in Russia stood politically, just before the Revolution, and what they subsequently produced.