“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States..."

[Shankapotomus]

94. Ignorance is worthy of sympthy

when its consequences are kept to yourself but when someone, like a republican, clings to their ignorance out of competitive malice and that ignorance is hurting others, what do you do? How do you react? It seems when ignorance gets a little power or finds itself a group of kindred spirits it can turn into arrogance very quickly.

I don't think people should be put down for ignorance but when the ignorant put down the knowledgeable, as when the likes of Rush Limbaugh scoff at climatologists over climate change, I think, through their own intolerance, they lose all claims to tolerance in return.