Reply #86: The Bushes, RNC, Corporate Behemoths and Right Wing Media are to blame.

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These folks pushed an anti-intellectualism agenda for the past thirty years. It was their purpose to keep the masses stupid.

They used the persecution of intelligent and honest people as an deterrent to keep others silent. And about a generation later, their followers are quickly becoming what "quintessential Americans" (in their view) are supposed to be like: easily lead, loud-mouthed, uncouth and proud of their ignorance.

Anyone else in another country would be ashamed of the vast ignorance of the national populace and would strive to change that.

In America, stupidity is not only praised especially in entertainment and in the media; it is encouraged.

So, is it any wonder that folks like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the Tea Queen herself, Caribou Barbie are held up by the public with the utmost reverence and fascination?

It's sickening that America has become a culture of folks who are suspicious of erudition, intellect and foreign languages.

The only time smarts are involved is when it is attached to entitlement and elitism. It would be fostered in a way to separate the "have and the have-mores" (to take a phrase from the oft-remembered Fahrenheit 9-11.