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"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"

—Isaac Asimov[1]
 
Intellectualism is on the way out. Try and get a job at a university right now. Kids are going to trade schools. :)
 
At present, this is mainly a Pub problem.

The batshit crazies of the left are the lefty anti-vaxxers, anti-GMOs, 9/11 truthers, the more fanatical of the hard-greens . . .

That's about all, really. There are no Commie revolutionaries to speak of. Nothing like the Weather Underground or the Symbionese Liberation Army is still around. Not even anything like the old Black Panther Party, which never really was very crazy. Opposition to nuclear power is sometimes misinformed, but never crazy.

There is nothing among Dems or leftists or liberals that is analogous to all those idiotic RW conspiracy theories about the Deep State, New World Order, Qanon, voter fraud, or about immigration being a plot to bolster the Dem vote, or climate change denialism, or about leftist bias in the media, or the economic lunacy of the Trump Admin. Nothing that crazy or that stupid.

The vast majority of the batshit crazies and conspiracy theorists in America are RW.
 
At least everything's sorted out now in a way it never was before 1960: RFK Jr. being HHS Secretary is but one example -- on the Pub side we have medical quackery and crankery, which by default leaves the Dems with scientific evidence-based medicine. It's the same with everything: Dem vs. Pub aligns with science vs. superstition. Dem vs. Pub equates to sanity vs. insanity. Dem vs. Pub is the same as rationality vs. irrationality, intelligence vs. stupidity, knowledge vs. willful ignorance.

See The Republican War on Science.

They let themselves in for this in 1964, when they formed a New Right coalition that included the Religious Right -- that cannot be squared with rationality! The Libertarians can at least make efforts to be rational, but the RRs rot all minds that ally with them.

And it was not strictly obligatory. William F. Buckley, in 1964, quite effectively read the John Birch Society out of the new Movement Conservatism, saying the movement "cannot afford to attach itself to the banner of irresponsibility." (The Birchers thought Eisenhower was a Communist.) He might have done the same to the RRs.

But the RRs were and are just too numerous to do without in the coalition.
 
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