Gabriel
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LOL, yeah, I know a lot of book smart, street stupid liberals who don't have one ounce of logic and common sense. I hardly call that being intellectually superior. Results matter and I would put mine up against yours any day.
It really is hard to retort this comment without becoming overly derogatory about the conservative, generally speaking of course. Most of the "intellectual" conservative base (if you can call them that) are not really conservatives but libertarian. However libertarianism is a kin to anarchy which isn't really all that conservative. Conservatives are actually quite collectivist considering their bias for forcing social conservatism on society. Which is the opposite of anarchy .. just in case you didn't know.
The right is fragmented between fundamentalist christians, red necks and libertarians. The big push for deregulation comes from libertarianism. Any anti taxation or anti government intervention is libertarianism. The moral wing of the right is obviously found in the fundamentalist christian and redneck corners. But libertarianism doesn't actually work well with that.
The bible bangers have made a deal with the devil so they can have some kind of intellectual argument to defend and or rationalize their political opposition to the left in general. All resting on the notion of self governance. They are mostly confused and expect someone to show up to clear up matters.(re Palin) The red necks just don't know anything outside of what daddy told them.(or beat into them whichever.)
Libertarians hooked up with the devil because they didn't have a political leg to stand on before they did. Clearly though the libertarians being somewhat educated are able to dupe the hard right into complacency with regards to these subjects.. just as long as they get their free market/no government/taxation for the bank accounts of the millionaires/billionaires. In reality though they are playing a fools game to think society can self regulate itself to utopia and it just turns into big monies favourite political game. If you can't see that and are libertarian without any reason then your only a dupe. Move to Somalia if you want to see what no government looks like.
I'll take book smart liberal or street stupid liberal, without a bit of common sense any day in light of that.