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In article <1992Aug19.033102.28965@ncar.ucar.edu> gary@isis.cgd.ucar.edu (Gary Strand) writes:
>f > "Frank" (Robin Collins)
>
>f > Some extremely intelligent people have been fundamentalists, or dogmatists.
>f > Such is fuel for fascism.  I think some of the libertarians are right in
>f > this area of thought (and which is why people like Chomsky call themselves
>f > libertarian socialists, I suspect.) Any thoughts?
>
>  On what? That we agree that being an intellectual is no safeguard against
>  falling for totalitarian's propaganda? Or that being an intellectual is
>  no guarantee against being wrong, or just ignorant and stupid? Makes one
>  wonder why so many intellectuals are of leftist persuasion, doesn't it?
>
>  Sometimes I think your average blue-collar Joe Steelworker has more sense
>  and wisdom than all the lefty intellectuals infesting academia and the
>  "elite".
>
>
>--
>Gary Strand                      Opinions stated herein are mine alone and are
>strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu            not representative of NCAR, UCAR, or the NSF

and that explains why your average Joe blue-collar steelworker is a socialist
and votes NDP in Canada,Labour in the UK,SDP in Germany,
socialist in france ,liberal-democrat in the US etc..
and Idiotic intellectuals like William F Buckley and Milton
Friedman debate in an esoteric vaccumn totally out of
touch with the cruel realities of poverty homelessness
desperation crime etc...

Your average Joe Bluecollar steelworker is a very sensible fellow
and knows who's side he is on.

ALEX