but to me the fact that you had no idea of the tradition on the Left of celebrating the Classics (hence your denigration of them as “an 11th grade education”, to which, of course, the response is “not in an NEA-run public school”) as a source of inspiration for the proletariat to rise above its blue-collar origins (it was one of the original versions of “use the master’s tools against the master” for crying out loud) indicates an education with some significant holes (not necessarily in absolute terms, but in relative terms). If you want to talk politics beyond the issues of the day and you don’t even know the basic history of your own ideology, well, why would I respect your perspective at all?

I thought even you would have more dignity than this [actually, not really]. The putative importance of the classics has nothing to do with the topic I mentioned. Its almost as if, knowing little of the history of the United States and unable to competently use google, you switched the conversation over to something you could find more easily on Wikipedia. As I said, you can tell little about my level of education by my comment–and indeed, it should have nothing to do with our discussions, everything I wrote was historically accurate–but your own insecurity about your intelligence and education is the only thing that emerges as an intact theme from your comments.