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Originally Posted by nmap
True. Absolutely true.
And, like you, I'm not at all sure what metric we should use. Liberal versus conservative, or even right versus left seem inadequate.
One thing I do know. Sarah Palin spoke from the heart, or so it seemed to me. She at least seemed to actually believe what she said. And - she had some passion. Her values resonanted with my own in many instances. It was refreshing.
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My sense of the schism is that it has to do with perceptions of intellect. David Brooks decried Palin's alleged anti-intellectualism. (Brooks thinks the president elect is brilliant, apparently because the president elect knows who Reinhold Niebuhr is.) He labeled her influence cancerous.
My own two cents. The most difficult thing for many self-described intellectuals to learn and to understand is that an education doesn't trump all. There will always be more that we don't know than what we know. Today's cutting edge knowledge will be tomorrow's trivia.