Letters to the Editor
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brunhilde
It's another deep divide: the educated v. the uneducated, the cosmopolitan v. the non-cosmopolitan.
I agree with you on the anti-intellectualism that has been long promoted by the GOP, the moderate and the extreme, and may I add also, the kind of simplistic attack ads that the Clintons are now embracing.
However, I do take exception to the educated vs the not educated part. In my experience, I have found that even the educated have a profound lack of common sense and common decency that many of the not educated seem to have in abundance. Hell, look at George W. Didn't he go to Yale, and then we have Newt Gingrich who has a PhD in something or the other. Look at the vast numbers of truly educated folk who do vote on pocket book issues and can't see the forest worth of trees. In my travels I have found the least educated that had more common sense and creative ways of surviving that would put many of us to shame, had we to endure the hardships that they go through on a daily basis.
Also, the most cosmopolitan, the very well heeled and well traveled, yes, they only have stamps in their passports, like Hillary, to boast of their having been to many countries. I know many people like that who have and will support narrow and excluding right wing policies.
Just my 2 cents.