Of course the bastions of intellect and high culture in the U.S. are primarily located in the Blue States, and most of our intellectual mandarins tend to be Democrats and liberals. But this is hardly a change from the 1950s, before the South-Sunbelt shift took place, is it? Conservatism of any stripe has always been a minority view among the American intelligentsia…Well, who am I to argue with a great conservative thinker like Sully?
He also offers a stirring explanation of how “the business of governing” is associated with an “exhaustion and corruption of intellect.” Seems to me, most of the brain-dead dodos on whose behalf he’s offering up this dubious apologia were intellectually bankrupt from the get-go; in fact, I seem to remember Bush coasting to victory (twice-ish) on the premise that he wasn’t one of those yucky egghead-types—and he certainly hasn’t disappointed by proving otherwise.
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