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Benevolent dictators are great. Turkey would probably be much worse off today if it wasn't for Ataturk.
I understand why you didn't want to link to that crap of an opinion piece.
And the democrats believe 0.8 degree temp change over the last 130 years is unprecedented. They also believe more gun control reduces crime even though the cities with the highest gun control have the highest crime. And they believe the Secretary of State could set up her own unprotected email server in her basement, forward to secret emails to it and not be a crime.
I have never thought it was exclusive to the GOP, or even a larger proportion among the GOP.
The original question was about which party had the higher percentage of anti-intellectuals. I defined that as people who don't think for themselves, but Foghorn may have a different definition. Straight ticket voting, IMO shows people who don't think for themselves. Both Parties have a significant number of lemmings on a number of issues, but that Democrats more often (as a group, not individually) vote straight ticket (at least where I have experience with the numbers) suggests there are more lemmings that are Democrat than are Republican.
certainly not a realistic system to try to set up, and I don't think Johnson was suggesting it could be implemented, just seemed interesting that something akin to that is sort of in place (maybe, from the way it was described).
You seem upset.Kafka said:
I think people who don't think for themselves are actually a separate category than those who are actively anti-intellectual. Though they certainly overlap.
She is a terrible candidate and I disagree with her about almost everything, but she doesn't actively promote anti-intellectualism.
It's all good, buddy. Not much new coming out of Turkey right now.
Everyone knows Erdogan is an ISIS sympathizer, but this shows you world leaders are more scared of a potential political vacuum which gives ISIS an opportunity to plow down less vicious adversaries.
But there is the negligence aspect to her candidacy that fits the Latin phrase.
It wasn't meant as an insult at all. I'm not sure why you took it that way. The point is no matter how much algebra or chemistry you force someone to learn in school, people are who they are. Some people live in a blue collar working class world and see the world through that lens. It's not a matter of education as much as station in life, lifestyle/people/culture that one gravitate towards. Although you are correct in the sense that the perception of things like labor unions seems to have trended negatively.
Many countries attacked by ISIS are too poor to fight big wars in the Middle East. They are already in huge debt trying to prop up their economies.
Last part is definitely true. I just meant the type of skills needed, the type of person the job attracts, the values those people hold, etc. Their economic slice has been reduced, but I don't think the people themselves have. Where has what it means to be a college graduate has changed significantly from the 60s/70s to now. Anyway, I'm checking out as this is way off topic.
Yes, Assad was legally elected even though he did not allow anyone else to run against him.
I'd like to. But I'm an uneducated, blue collar worker and don't understand simple instructions.
Yes, anyone who watched Game of Thrones season 1 knows whoever controls the army has the power.
