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12. OK, you agree
Fri Feb 14, 2014, 04:31 PM
Feb 2014

"It’s very easy for progressives, especially who ones who read sites like ours, to fall into a trap of assuming that the most anti-intellectual conservatives speak for the movement in one voice. That’s both false and harmful: false, because there’s a lot of interesting conservative thought out there challenging progressive shibboleths; harmful, because progressives who reduce conservatism to Steve Stockman-ism live in an intellectually impoverished world."

...with his lecture about progressives. What about the argument being made about inequality?

BTW, I think this "but also because it points out that progressives don’t have a lock on wonky academic research"

...is condescending nonsense, especially when it's being used to push a flawed strawman theory wrapped in lame spin.

"From the only hyperlink supplied by you before your update. May I assume that your disagreement is with the subjects of that same article? Or with Mr. Beauchamps conclusion?"

No, the update states clearly why I disagree.

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