Slade, you haven’t answered any of my points. Do you or do you not find that the left in this country stoops to mean viscious personal attacks on their opponents intelligence, education, or culture? Do you or do you not think that this tendency leads to a statist totalitatrian mindset that would gleefully deprive the masses of their freedom?

The left’s main attacks against the right are based on our supposed stupidity. For how long was Bush called a chimp, and the village idiot? Sarah Palin was raked over the same coals, as a stupid bumpkin who went to third rate state schools. This has been going on and on for years. The left has an intelligence fetish, for sure. Their arguements rapidly descend to the ad hominem. They are saying, loudly and clearly, ‘dont’t listen to the uncultured, uneducated stupid bumpkins from podunk little towns. Listen to us, follow us, do as we say, because we are smart, cool, eat the right things, went to the right schools, travel internationally, and are just better than you!” I mean Slade, have you missed that entire meme?

I’m not the only one at BC who calls into question the rank elitism of the left. I just thought that fellow was a particularly vile specimen of it.