Pajamas Richard Minter’s interview of Hitchens the day and a few drinks after bear repeating in this discussion. http://tinyurl.com/ygqu6p

Around 2:35 into the interview Hitchens says “by all means stupid people should be represented” but not by stupid people (laughter) ..the genius of democracy is that thick people can vote the bright people in.”

Later at 3:00 min into the interview – Richard, “Last question don’t you think that bright people make politics worse? I mean nobody can mock up a country as much as a bright person can… energetic bright people are worst of all”

Hitchens “look I went.. to university with ahmm.. William Jefferson Clinton, who believes to be himself intelligent, is believed by many to be intelligent and isn’t stupid, but the pseudo intellectual is far worst than.. intelligent.. you are quite right. The problem with the pseudo intellectual is not what they don’t know, is what they do know that they (inaudible) didn’t say (?). Beware of the pseudo intellectual, above all beware of them. And yes, always prefer the simpleton to that, absolutely. And exercise your (indecipherable) accordingly.

Richard – “here here..” End of interview.

Hitchens is part right (I like a guy who doesn’t care much for PC) about the genius of democracy. The genius of OUR democracy is that it doesn’t take a genius for it to run.

BTW, I believe that the ephemeral equality of political correctness is a great deal to blame for the poor quality of characters we get to represent us.

We have something that the founders wanted to seemingly almost remove from our genetic make up. (I know – they didn’t put it that way) That is our predisposition for worship.
Much Washington is in autopilot partly out fear that it was going to take man and not “angels”.
Unchecked admiration turns into adoration and very quickly democracy is gone.
Look at Chaves present day in Venezuela.
Somebody said that the difficulty in finding out weather Germans have mended their ways laid in the fact that they passed laws against their past. We don’t know if in their hart of harts the present Germany is what they would have chosen.

Besides there is so much more rewarding things for bright folks to do – check this out.

http://tinyurl.com/y4agdk