I've only seen Zakaria a few times and he's kind of boring. But there's some truth to his statements here.CID1990 wrote:Clam down, Nancy.kalm wrote:
No. There's hasn't been a strong anti-intellectualism streak running through the "conservative" side for awhile now. Uh, uh. Not at all.
And what does he mean, obstructionist? It's not as if that's one of the core values of conservatism.
OK, the populism thing, made me pause too. But it's not as if movement conservatism, with a mistrust of liberal elites in government and the private sector (Soros?) is insignificant or can't be labeled as a form of populism. There's still a Tea Party caucus, right? In fact, isn't their a Tea Party type candidate doing fairly well right now?
Or are you that afraid of certain labels?
(I actually think you're technically right in labeling Bernie a neo-marxist. It just doesn't make me **** the bed)
I am merely pointing out that your preening hero is no different from those he disagrees with- and he isn't an intellectual - he pretends to be one (since you missed the nickname I gave him apparently)
tut tutting people like some professor of anthropology at EWU or some other directional school is not how you do it....
My last point is simply that- Trump is little different from Bernie if people want to talk about mid-twentieth century political/ideological failures- the Democratic Party has a problem too... they just haven't noticed it yet because Bernie is a lot closer to their "center" than Trump is to the GOP's
I'm sorry it caused you so much consternation and you can take as long as you need to thank me for the tough love.
I thought about adding the Various Polls thread but got distracted. Thanks.