[Superman]

Talking out of both sides of our mouths? Dems are elitist, but uneducated? If someone would like me to think that republicans intellectually or educationally equal to dems, then they're going to have to show me some data. right now, I believe (and many others do as well) that liberals are smarter and more educated. I'm being blunt because I'd like someone to think I'm throwing down the gauntlet. Someone prove me wrong, if you can. My state is notoriously and thoroughly (except for Island, of course) liberal. Terribly liberal. And I believe it has been noticed that we have the highest, or nearly the highest proportions of bachelor and masters' degree holders of any state in the union. Similar statistics can be found for most of the other blue states. By contrast, red states include Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, etc. Need I say more? So anyone asserting that conservatives are NOT the intellectual and educational inferiors of liberals, had better produce some evidence.

In the meantime, I am struggling, and I hope my party is struggling even harder, to understand how a waitress whose family has been democrats for generations can be coaxed into knowingly voting against her self-interest. Coaxed into supporting tax breaks for billionaires, trasking the economy and the environment and killing Muslims so that Halliburton can make its own financial killing while pretending this is making us safer.