Somehow intellectual = liberal. I don’t know how this happened. I don’t consider myself any less educated or erudite than most of the knuckleheads that pass for pundits and college professors these days but I am damn sure not a liberal. I just read a comment that said the intelligentsia always gets its way because it never gives up and just continues to hammer things down the public’s throat until the public finally makes the “right” decision. This is quite true, look at the difference between polling numbers (even when skewed) and the things we discuss on a daily basis as if there’s anything to discuss:
gun control – something like 70% percent of people agreed that the Second Amendment guarantees the individual right to bear arms.
abortion – a slim majority think abortion should only be legal when the woman’s health is in danger or in cases of rape or incest
Etc, etc. It goes on and on, I just couldn’t think of any other examples to prove the point right now. It seems sometimes as if our elites, politicians and “intellectuals”, run sometimes at right angles to society. No wonder people join militias.
There is a reason I dislike the IRA post-1921. At that time, and through the present, the elites in charge of the IRA decided that the people had no right to do wrong. That is, the people voted for the end of conflict and the establishment of the Free State as it was without Northern Ireland. Of course this was bad policy but it was the best that could be done and what’s more the people democratically constituted overwhelmingly voted for it. What did the intellectuals do? What do they do now when the people disagree? They completely ignore the people and go off pursuing the ends they consider right regardless of what the masses think. “The people have no right to do wrong.”
Bull. That’s the whole point of democracy/republicanism/what have you. The people have every right to do wrong. Better a large group determines what’s right and wrong than a few fellows in academic robes and funny hats. That’s the entire bloody point. Too bad our so-called “intellectuals” can’t seem to wade through the Constitution or any of the years of Enlightenment political philosophy that led to the founding of this country. I suppose it has too many big words.