“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” Isaac Asimov.
"Break their stick to make your stick bigger" is pretty common. The oligarchy won't stop campaigning and sit in the big chair. To stop and do their job to help the losing half of the 1%'s insider trading Ponzi Scheme, called the stockmarket. Well. Because there is a conflicting intrest in the 1% stopping the insider trading Ponzi Scheme called the stockmarket. If they stop breaking other people's stick; their stick won't be so large.
@@mvgamer9637 . Oh dear, yet another fool who has no idea what a communist is. A true observation is true whether you like it or not. Who said anything about idolising?
you can lead a trump voter to the facts, but you cannot force them to think. the GOP knows their audience and they laughingly take advantage of their own voters.
While both sides are susceptible to these type of figures using anti intellectualism to win them over, republicans are officially the most insufferable (mostly non-violent) group in the world
But Daddy elon Exposed Hunters Coke adventures But does anyone talk about it... No. Why, because reasons I guess The people don't have the right to know.
That's it, exactly. Anyone can learn anything: long as they start where their current knowledge is, and figure out how to connect that to what they want to learn. But they do need to admit they don't know something. And that's very hard for some people. Thinking and reading is very time consuming. So if you want to take the easy way, just believe what you pretend to know.
This is terrifyingly accurate and the reason I see the end of our society on the horizon. People would rather feel good than deal with the truth, and now they have so many avenues to escape reality.
"They use high IQ people have an answer for everythang, you know whaiii, because they think they are smarter and more virtuous than American people". Yes, having a higher IQ does mean exactly that.
That is a dangerous comment. a high IQ doesn't make you more virtous at all. In fact it raises the bar for you to be virtuous because you should know better.
I would say that intellectuals pursue the truth, never know if they've found the truth, and always second-guess themselves. That's why they tend not to be very good politicians, unless they keep that to themselves and put on a much more self-certain public persona.
One question I often ask is that people trust computers, cars, phones, roads, bridges, weather reports, airplanes, water systems, food systems, grocery stores, etc. All of these are the results of modern technology, research, development, engineering and logistics. The guy in the video is using a microphone and is wearing a watch, a couple of elements of modern technology.
My father had a high IQ and was briefly a member of Mensa. He hated “egg heads”, such as Adlai Stevenson, even though he was one himself! Was he a Republican? Of course he was. :( This anti-intellectualism is not new. It’s been around for decades.
Centuries actually. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about anti-intellectualism in the US in 1835. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#On_majority_rule_and_mediocrity
A lot of Republican politicians are smart and intelligent people. They're just also immoral or amoral in most cases (even more so than most Democrats - for the "both sides are bad" people).
wtf kind of stupid question is that? No man, what we need is a bunch of religious fascist dummies with Iqs under 75 running things. Like Mike Pence and Bo bo....or just a Fatboy wanna be dictator...
They should make their theme song "I Like 'Em Big and Stupid" by Julie Brown. Her lyrics would fit perfectly- "I like 'em big and stupid I like 'em big and real dumb I like 'em big and stupid I met a guy who drives a truck (Peterbilt) He can't tell time but he sure can drive I asked his name and he had to think Could I have found the missing link He's so stupid-you know what he said Well, I forgot what he said 'Cause it was so stupid."
“High IQ stupid people” I have no words to this statement. I mean, are we just living in a computer simulation, or some sort of alternate universe at this point. I can’t even..
Rinse the kale and hand-strip or cut the leafy part from the hard veins. Chop. Add a little oil to pan and heat on medium. Dice some onion and add to the oil. Mince some garlic and add to the onion. Add a generous pinch of ground cumin (unless you dislike cumin) and a little black pepper. Dice a plum tomato. Or two. Add to the pan and cook for a 5 minutes or so. Add the chopped kale and a little salt. Mix. Stir here and there til the kale is soft adding a bit of water if needed.
I admire your thought here. It's not the intellectuals people should worry about, it's (pseudo- &) anti-intellectuals and people who speak outside their expertise who should be a worry.
Anti-intellectualism has been a socially-divisive element for many years in many countries. As an American living in Thailand, for example, I also witnessed it here during the tenure of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ("Mark") who was born to Thai parents living in the UK and was educated at Eton and Oxford before returning to Thailand and entering politics. Among the key opposition arguments and sentiments against him were his foreign born status, his high-level education, his dual Thai-British citizenship, and most of all his ability to speak very fluent English. So the play against him was often that we/you (Thai people) should not and cannot trust anyone who is so "foreign" and so "smart", i.e. he is not one of the people he is an intellectual. And it more or less worked, especially in a country which is well-infused with xenophobia. Take it from me, a "farang" (western white person) living in Thailand - anyone who comes from outside Thailand is forever treated with a hypocritical mix of amusement, fascination and contempt. As far as I'm concerned Abhisit was by far the best most qualified PM Thailand has had in any recent times, in a country otherwise mired in cancerous levels of corruption. In short, he was "too good" for Thailand and the opposition played it against him. Yet another case of "keep 'em dumb poor scared and angry" and they'll vote that way.
I live in Kentucky, so I can relate to how well anti intellectualism actually works. I’ve lived in numerous states across the country and the least educated live here. The most ignorant of people are usually those who think they are the smartest. I work with several of them. If you tell them what they want to hear, they believe it. The term “intersubjectively verifiable” seems like a foreign language to them.
same there's definitely a direct link that needs to be further explored. We already have a few studies that have been done showing that there is indeed a correlation between religious people and IQ levels....and what do you know, religious people on average had lower IQs than non religious people....Its almost like to be religious, you have to stop critically thinking and applying reason to your arguments and beliefs or something but idk, smart people haven't been pointing out this delusional behavior for years or anything, unfortunately we happen to live in a country that does not value its education at all. @@leadoucet1432
I used to have a wrestling coach that would call people 'a horse's ass'… No doubt he was thinking about Senator Kennedy when he came up with that saying.
@@michaelmartinez3674 "kennedy WILL NEVER be mistaken for a high IQ person" But if it's a ruse by intent, it's kinda a high IQ ruse that recognizes the worth of keeping the base dumb. I worry we mistake sociopathic self-interested behaviour for dumb. These dummies* can be very clever in their ability to manipulate their audience.
I figured out how anti-intellectual this country in within a year of graduating high school in 1986. I was blessed to have spent most of my K-12 years attending, what was then was referred to as DoDDS (Dept of Defense Dependent Schools). Even though I ended up graduating in the bottom 25% of my class I was leaps and bounds ahead of the game. When I arrived at MCRD Parris Island I was just flabbergasted at how STUPID my fellow Marines to be were and even as I progressed into my short Marine Corps career. Once I decended into my 30's I decided it was time to get my act together and start my post secondary schooling. I opted for night school to ease back into education. It was a small branch location of an actual 4 year (on campus) university. The woman who was my intake councillor called me into her office after the first mid-terms and asked me "What the heck happened to you during high school?" I was performing so far ahead of the expectations based on my graduation GPA and ranking. She told me that spending a second semester would actually hamper me. She put me in touch with the local branch of our state's university system to immediately get the ball rolling. At 54 years of age, I have come to realize what the reason was. We were taught to think critically and to not view knowledge through poltical or religous lenses.
It's certainly not just Republicans doing it. While a little older, a well-known example of this was in 2007 at the 42nd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama Hillary Clinton gave a speech written and spoken in the most dumbed down insulting way possible. Although in different ways, this is a major problem on both sides.
Freedom of speech means you can say anything It doesn’t mean the things people are free to say are correct or that those people should be listened too! Someone saw Hershel Walker rambling about good air and werewolves and honestly though he’d be a great senator!!
I correlate the vast anti-intellectualism in the United States, and many other countries, directly to religious belief. Religious belief makes it so that you will believe almost anything (virgin births), and numbs your sense of curiosity toward human morality and scientific facts.
My black family in Georgia eats kale. So does my black family in Ohio. He should've gone with avocado toast or something (although, we eat avocado toast too).
People in America CHOOSE to be divided. And this new thing now is just another excuse to divide. It’s always a choice. No one can be divided unless they choose! No one forces one to hate, you choose to. If one wants to believe the Republican line we’ll the only one you can control is yourself! It’s that simple.
So Kennedy was co-valedictorian of his high school class, graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt (where he was also senior class president and a member of Phi Beta Kappa), got his JD from University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the Virginia Law Review and elected to Order of the Coif (an honor society for law school graduates), and then got a Bachelor of Civil Law from Magdalen College, Oxford. But education is bad. Okay.
he said "high iq stupid people" i fell on the floor and i laughed like i have never laughed before.when i heard that bit of oxymoron-ness.i still get the giggles thinking about it.and i heard it yesterday.
@@whyamimrpink78 thats true. but ignorance and stupity are not the same thing. ignorance is not knowing a subject. like im ignorant on heart surgery . i could not perform that operation. a stupid person would think they could wing it. iq is ones ability to learn.not ones inteligence,parsay. but what the man was saying that high iq were all stupid. or at least he was inferring it. where there may be some uneducated people with high iq not all people with a high iq are ignorant. but then again we need a better defintion of ignorant.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️
This is also true of the Democratic Party. In the 2020 primaries, Elizabeth Warren was ridiculed for making detailed and specific plans to address many of the issues that plagued America. Instead voters supported Biden who had an uncle vibe and some rosey rhetoric
@@bobbun4369- Republican voters only value degrees from elite schools when the candidate is a Republican. Republicans only value the candidate being a Christian when the candidate is a Republican.
As I've been saying for years, it's "celebrity over substance", not necessarily anti-intellectualism which kind of misses the point. Pretty obviously true when you consider Trump. Lake, Walker, Oz - whose only qualification is name recognition, which the Trumpster thinks should be enough.
What's interesting is that the same thing happened in the UK back in 2015 with the EU referendum. Michael Gove (at the time, the Justice Secretary) stated in an interview that the UK needed to take back control from elitists (thankfully coming from one of the few members of the Conservative Party's upper echelon that wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth) and that the people had "had enough of experts" when the studies showing the negative impact of the leave vote were highlighted. I'll never understand how the rightwing parties can be loaded with people who never want for anything can convince those in poverty to vote against their own interests. The only thing I can think of is to play the less educated against their own interests by beckoning to topics like immigration...
Anti-intellectualism goes back to the pioneers in this country. We've always had people living in cities, where there was a college, and people living as far away from society as possible. Even the first English translation of the Bible wasn't in the U.S. until 1782. There were still intelligent people, back then, of course. But it was very easy to not be intelligent. It's still very easy to not read, study, practice critical thinking.
Interestingly, this issue was once a truly riveting feature of a severe “divide” WITHIN the Democratic Party. The Southern Senate Caucus (exclusively Democrat) was once the most powerful voting block in America and often referred to as the South’s “revenge for Gettysburg”. One of the lasting relics of this period was actor Kenny Delmar’s satiric Southern Senator Beauregard Claghorn. As a Connecticut architect who has done work in Virginia, Florida and North Carolina, I have been often struck by interactions with some truly gifted individuals…both Black and White…working in the construction and engineering fields who, nevertheless, I sometimes have wished had “subtitles” displayed while I was talking with them. “Southern” has in many respects become synonymous with “backward” or “low IQ” which is absolutely unfair. And yet, to hear people like Kennedy drag it out and try to paint ALL progressives as condescending snobs, while he himself tries to play Cleghorn is disgusting. It is worth noting that in 1928 Al Smith, one of the fathers of Progressive politics and one of Americas greatest urban populists ONLY won Confederate states during his disastrous 1928 run against Herbert Hoover. Smith had a distinctive “New Yawk” urban Irish drawl and western and mid-western voters hated him for it. He was lampooned as a tottering, Catholic, alcoholic, corrupt urban politician…which he absolutely wasn’t. Only loyal-to-the-core Confederate state Democrats voted for him. There was once a time…
This is really one of the most pressing issues in the country... If you can't agree on basic facts, how can you are on the problems or their solutions?
As someone who has been around special needs individuals for my entire life, I feel very confident saying that Congressman Cletus’ uncle is (probably) also his Pappy.
Ironically the Puritans wanted their ministers highly educated so they founded many universities. In the 1820’s the preachers said “we don’t need no stinking education all we need is the Bible.” During Jackson’s presidency, roaming “tent revivals” became popular. Ref: Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter, 1964
@@ericwilliams1659 CHRIST JESUS has anointed President Donald J Trump for such a time as this to lead America and the world against the spirits of Antichrist, Jezebel and Leviathan. The anointing took place in the Courts of Heaven shortly before Trump came down the escalator to announce his candidacy in 2016.
I don’t hate Jefferson or Washington, who were both trained as Surveyors, and Civil Engineers. Jefferson was also a fairly good Architect. Both were extremely well educated for the time. And, neither was a “Christian”. “Make Americ Smart Again, and Great Will Follow”
I could be considered "high IQ" in the state I live in (perhaps not so much in other states), but I have no issue with George Washington (other than his owning slaves and being overrated as a president), Thomas Jefferson (who did not believe Jesus was divine and edited his own New Testament called the "Jefferson Bible" to reflect this), or Dr. Seuss (unless there is something awful I do not know about him). The most disturbing aspect of this is that conservative's makeup whatever they want to believe about Democrats: they're "groomers" who want to talk about sex to your kids; they eat babies after sacrificing them to Satan (that's a real article a nutjob from my hometown was passing around on Facebook believing it was fact), etc. It's scary for those of us who are liberal living in extremist red states.
This is a stab in the back of one of the oldest principals of politics. What is known as the philosopher king, basically the idea of the smartest and most well versed person in said field should be the leader. In turn this is why we have representatives, and I don't want a senate filled with random people. Worse yet stupid people. People in office should be very politically savvy. In the same way I don't want a mechanic, who knows less about cars then I do.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
Isaac Asimov.
Great quote. Thought it'd be Hofstadter but to see Mr. Asimov was a pleasant surprise.
"Break their stick to make your stick bigger" is pretty common.
The oligarchy won't stop campaigning and sit in the big chair. To stop and do their job to help the losing half of the 1%'s insider trading Ponzi Scheme, called the stockmarket.
Well. Because there is a conflicting intrest in the 1% stopping the insider trading Ponzi Scheme called the stockmarket.
If they stop breaking other people's stick; their stick won't be so large.
@@mvgamer9637 .
Oh dear, yet another fool who has no idea what a communist is.
A true observation is true whether you like it or not.
Who said anything about idolising?
@@mvgamer9637 Leave it to a Conservative idiot to slander a great and highly intelligent sci-fi writer.
Touche! I like to say my rights end where your rights begin.
you can lead a trump voter to the facts, but you cannot force them to think. the GOP knows their audience and they laughingly take advantage of their own voters.
While both sides are susceptible to these type of figures using anti intellectualism to win them over, republicans are officially the most insufferable (mostly non-violent) group in the world
Agree so true 👍
They do!
It's gross.
But Daddy elon Exposed Hunters Coke adventures But does anyone talk about it... No. Why, because reasons I guess The people don't have the right to know.
So true.
It's like those scammers that deliberately use bad grammar and spelling to filter out people who would never fall for the scam.
There are a lot of people who don't live up to their potential and anti-intellectualism makes them feel better about their failures.
There are a lot of dummies , raised by dummies, and married to dummies that have ZERO potential .
That's it, exactly. Anyone can learn anything: long as they start where their current knowledge is, and figure out how to connect that to what they want to learn. But they do need to admit they don't know something. And that's very hard for some people. Thinking and reading is very time consuming. So if you want to take the easy way, just believe what you pretend to know.
This is terrifyingly accurate and the reason I see the end of our society on the horizon. People would rather feel good than deal with the truth, and now they have so many avenues to escape reality.
Congratulations To Senator Raphael Warnock
Congrats 💙🙏👍
A Republican Raphael Warnock.
"They use high IQ people have an answer for everythang, you know whaiii, because they think they are smarter and more virtuous than American people". Yes, having a higher IQ does mean exactly that.
smarter, yes; virtue is on a different axis.
That is a dangerous comment.
a high IQ doesn't make you more virtous at all.
In fact it raises the bar for you to be virtuous because you should know better.
When John Kennedy twangs, a banjo starts playing the theme from Deliverance. 😮
Yep and he squeals like a pig.
😄
Kennedy is a result of some serious inbreeding.
Boy, you gotta perty mouth ☜ (↼_↼) ugh, I cannot take this shit...
Being intellectual doesn't mean being a "smarty pants." An intellectual is a guardian of the truth.
I would say that intellectuals pursue the truth, never know if they've found the truth, and always second-guess themselves. That's why they tend not to be very good politicians, unless they keep that to themselves and put on a much more self-certain public persona.
No, it means knowing the difference between the truth and " my truth".
@@loki2240 Is that what you would say?
Anyone who refers to themselves as an intellectual probably isn't very intellectual.
Common sense/a high IQ aren't mutually exclusive.
It sounds like John Kennedy just repackaged a Jeff Foxworthy stand up bit.
You can't fix stupid
"You can tell who these people are" is just code for, "anyone you disagree with, is bad".
Republican politics is the only career where you can demand a promotion for knowing less than your colleagues with experience and knowledge
One question I often ask is that people trust computers, cars, phones, roads, bridges, weather reports, airplanes, water systems, food systems, grocery stores, etc. All of these are the results of modern technology, research, development, engineering and logistics. The guy in the video is using a microphone and is wearing a watch, a couple of elements of modern technology.
My father had a high IQ and was briefly a member of Mensa. He hated “egg heads”, such as Adlai Stevenson, even though he was one himself! Was he a Republican? Of course he was. :(
This anti-intellectualism is not new. It’s been around for decades.
What your dad probably hated was the snooty elitism that's always been tied to leftism.
Centuries actually. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about anti-intellectualism in the US in 1835.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#On_majority_rule_and_mediocrity
Kennedy: Smart people think they are so smart just because they are smart.
Hearing him makes me think of the people in trailer parks with tons of beer bottles on their porch yelling “Don’t tread on me” 😂
Do you really want a smart person who has answers and solutions working in government?
A lot of Republican politicians are smart and intelligent people. They're just also immoral or amoral in most cases (even more so than most Democrats - for the "both sides are bad" people).
Yes, so I'd suggest you don't run for office.
Hell no!
wtf kind of stupid question is that? No man, what we need is a bunch of religious fascist dummies with Iqs under 75 running things. Like Mike Pence and Bo bo....or just a Fatboy wanna be dictator...
@@dankkrops go clack rocks. Neanderthal.
Damned people with ziploc bags full of kale, they're everywhere and they're ruining everything!
That comment actually had me howling!
@@Mathemusician97 This is no laughing matter, this is serious!
Want somebody please think of the kale! :)
Yeah those are just kale leaves *wink*
David on point as per usual! 😆💯
“High iq stupid people” has me has rolling
Yes! Plus, he is really telling his audience that they are NOT high IQ people. Of course, with their low IQ they probably didn't get the insult.
IQ tests don't accurately measure intelligence but I'm sure he wasn't meaning that when he said that.
People like that are why I refuse to live in the South.
I love how John Kennedy speaks as if he only has a high school diploma, and not a law degree. SMH.
72% of America think that Joan Of Arc is Noah's wife
Is this true? Because if so, I’m not surprised.
or a Mexican border pays rent!
@@johnmcgee636 john, stop being a racist loser
No they don't
Ha!
I think Kennedy has gotten a bit carried away with his Foghorn Leghorn schtick.
My God! Kennedy's such a stereotype! All he needs is a white suit, a cane, and a hat used as a fan.
@@bobcadley3763 I'd say the white guy who called his dog: " Belvedere! Come here boy!" But Foggorn works too.
They should make their theme song "I Like 'Em Big and Stupid" by Julie Brown. Her lyrics would fit perfectly- "I like 'em big and stupid
I like 'em big and real dumb
I like 'em big and stupid
I met a guy who drives a truck
(Peterbilt)
He can't tell time but he sure can drive
I asked his name and he had to think
Could I have found the missing link
He's so stupid-you know what he said
Well, I forgot what he said
'Cause it was so stupid."
“High IQ stupid people” I have no words to this statement. I mean, are we just living in a computer simulation, or some sort of alternate universe at this point. I can’t even..
Rinse the kale and hand-strip or cut the leafy part from the hard veins. Chop.
Add a little oil to pan and heat on medium.
Dice some onion and add to the oil. Mince some garlic and add to the onion.
Add a generous pinch of ground cumin (unless you dislike cumin) and a little black pepper.
Dice a plum tomato. Or two. Add to the pan and cook for a 5 minutes or so.
Add the chopped kale and a little salt. Mix.
Stir here and there til the kale is soft adding a bit of water if needed.
I love being smart
Me too 👍
I admire your thought here.
It's not the intellectuals people should worry about, it's (pseudo- &) anti-intellectuals and people who speak outside their expertise who should be a worry.
Same here, critical thinking skills help me discern the lies and stupidity ☜ (↼_↼)
Anti-intellectualism has been a socially-divisive element for many years in many countries. As an American living in Thailand, for example, I also witnessed it here during the tenure of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ("Mark") who was born to Thai parents living in the UK and was educated at Eton and Oxford before returning to Thailand and entering politics. Among the key opposition arguments and sentiments against him were his foreign born status, his high-level education, his dual Thai-British citizenship, and most of all his ability to speak very fluent English. So the play against him was often that we/you (Thai people) should not and cannot trust anyone who is so "foreign" and so "smart", i.e. he is not one of the people he is an intellectual. And it more or less worked, especially in a country which is well-infused with xenophobia. Take it from me, a "farang" (western white person) living in Thailand - anyone who comes from outside Thailand is forever treated with a hypocritical mix of amusement, fascination and contempt. As far as I'm concerned Abhisit was by far the best most qualified PM Thailand has had in any recent times, in a country otherwise mired in cancerous levels of corruption. In short, he was "too good" for Thailand and the opposition played it against him. Yet another case of "keep 'em dumb poor scared and angry" and they'll vote that way.
I live in Kentucky, so I can relate to how well anti intellectualism actually works. I’ve lived in numerous states across the country and the least educated live here. The most ignorant of people are usually those who think they are the smartest. I work with several of them. If you tell them what they want to hear, they believe it. The term “intersubjectively verifiable” seems like a foreign language to them.
My father was that type of person and was also extremely religious. I always equate religion and stupidity.
same there's definitely a direct link that needs to be further explored. We already have a few studies that have been done showing that there is indeed a correlation between religious people and IQ levels....and what do you know, religious people on average had lower IQs than non religious people....Its almost like to be religious, you have to stop critically thinking and applying reason to your arguments and beliefs or something but idk, smart people haven't been pointing out this delusional behavior for years or anything, unfortunately we happen to live in a country that does not value its education at all. @@leadoucet1432
I used to have a wrestling coach that would call people 'a horse's ass'… No doubt he was thinking about Senator Kennedy when he came up with that saying.
So Kennedy's dumb is more deceit than stupid?
Hard to believe.
But totally true.
Well, it CAN be said that kennedy WILL NEVER be mistaken for a high IQ person. 😉
@@michaelmartinez3674 "kennedy WILL NEVER be mistaken for a high IQ person"
But if it's a ruse by intent, it's kinda a high IQ ruse that recognizes the worth of keeping the base dumb. I worry we mistake sociopathic self-interested behaviour for dumb. These dummies* can be very clever in their ability to manipulate their audience.
@@Blackmark52 You're right.
I should've said his constituents won't mistake him for a "high IQ" person.
Haha.
The master historian Richard Hofstadter said it all sixty years ago in "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life".
Kennedy’s speech was authentic prairie gibberish.
I overheard my Trump neighbors say "He's got BOOKS in there..."
“Senator John Kennedy, I KNEW President John Kennedy. Senator John Kennedy, YOU’RE NO PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY.”
Brilliant discussion
This "character" he cracks out for the truly stupid republican base is so over the top as to be a caricature, not a character.
I figured out how anti-intellectual this country in within a year of graduating high school in 1986. I was blessed to have spent most of my K-12 years attending, what was then was referred to as DoDDS (Dept of Defense Dependent Schools). Even though I ended up graduating in the bottom 25% of my class I was leaps and bounds ahead of the game. When I arrived at MCRD Parris Island I was just flabbergasted at how STUPID my fellow Marines to be were and even as I progressed into my short Marine Corps career. Once I decended into my 30's I decided it was time to get my act together and start my post secondary schooling. I opted for night school to ease back into education. It was a small branch location of an actual 4 year (on campus) university. The woman who was my intake councillor called me into her office after the first mid-terms and asked me "What the heck happened to you during high school?" I was performing so far ahead of the expectations based on my graduation GPA and ranking. She told me that spending a second semester would actually hamper me. She put me in touch with the local branch of our state's university system to immediately get the ball rolling. At 54 years of age, I have come to realize what the reason was. We were taught to think critically and to not view knowledge through poltical or religous lenses.
"They ain't got no common sense" is something I've always heard
It's certainly not just Republicans doing it. While a little older, a well-known example of this was in 2007 at the 42nd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama Hillary Clinton gave a speech written and spoken in the most dumbed down insulting way possible. Although in different ways, this is a major problem on both sides.
I knew we were doomed when Bush was elected over Gore...
I agree. I believed it when Ronald Reagan won. I loved a bumper sticker that read Jane Wyman Was Right.
The movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary at this point.
2:01 Didn't he play Cousin Eddie in "National Lampoon's Vacation"?
Freedom of speech means you can say anything
It doesn’t mean the things people are free to say are correct or that those people should be listened too!
Someone saw Hershel Walker rambling about good air and werewolves and honestly though he’d be a great senator!!
Good commentary here, David.
A stupid person will always think they are right.
This isn't discussed enough!
I correlate the vast anti-intellectualism in the United States, and many other countries, directly to religious belief. Religious belief makes it so that you will believe almost anything (virgin births), and numbs your sense of curiosity toward human morality and scientific facts.
the funniest part is trying to malign kale to black people in Georgia. do corn bread next.
My black family in Georgia eats kale. So does my black family in Ohio. He should've gone with avocado toast or something (although, we eat avocado toast too).
Remember ONE of the big reasons that people hated Obama was because he is intelligent.
And gay
@@cowboyhoyt1554 That the best you've got? Pretty sad.
@@gwine9087 the best I got? I’m not sure what that means. He’s gay, his partner is too. I don’t decide this. Lol
@@gwine9087 the best I got? Uh it’s just facts. His ex wrote about it. His partner is.
@@cowboyhoyt1554 Apparently, you are the only one who is privy to that. Mute.
Kennedy should know that's not kale in our ziplock baggies!
Thank you.😂
People in America CHOOSE to be divided. And this new thing now is just another excuse to divide. It’s always a choice. No one can be divided unless they choose! No one forces one to hate, you choose to. If one wants to believe the Republican line we’ll the only one you can control is yourself! It’s that simple.
So Kennedy was co-valedictorian of his high school class, graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt (where he was also senior class president and a member of Phi Beta Kappa), got his JD from University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the Virginia Law Review and elected to Order of the Coif (an honor society for law school graduates), and then got a Bachelor of Civil Law from Magdalen College, Oxford.
But education is bad. Okay.
fear the power of stupidity for it is infinite
he said "high iq stupid people" i fell on the floor and i laughed like i have never laughed before.when i heard that bit of oxymoron-ness.i still get the giggles thinking about it.and i heard it yesterday.
If you want stupid people (MAGAts) to vote for you, then you have to go down to there level. You have to play dumber than dumb.
@@whyamimrpink78 thats true. but ignorance and stupity are not the same thing. ignorance is not knowing a subject. like im ignorant on heart surgery . i could not perform that operation. a stupid person would think they could wing it. iq is ones ability to learn.not ones inteligence,parsay. but what the man was saying that high iq were all stupid. or at least he was inferring it. where there may be some uneducated people with high iq not all people with a high iq are ignorant. but then again we need a better defintion of ignorant.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️
That video clip-- are we sure that the speaker was not lip-synching for Barney Fife?
Bill Burr's hillbilly imitation sounds just like this guy, I double took!
This is also true of the Democratic Party. In the 2020 primaries, Elizabeth Warren was ridiculed for making detailed and specific plans to address many of the issues that plagued America. Instead voters supported Biden who had an uncle vibe and some rosey rhetoric
That’s a delicate way of saying BLATANT STUPIDITY.
Remember the film Revenge of the Nerds?
Like being a Christian, having a degree from an elite school only counts when there's an R next to a candidate's name.
What??
@@bobbun4369- Republican voters only value degrees from elite schools when the candidate is a Republican. Republicans only value the candidate being a Christian when the candidate is a Republican.
@@loki2240 you clearly have no clue what the opposing view is…
@@bobbun4369 - There's more than one opposing view, but what I described fits a lot of Republican voters.
@@loki2240 no, that’s just your blind hate and having no clue what the opposing view is… perhaps try and learn it instead of guessing
Well put and so true
Well David, I'm really enjoying your sarcastic side. What seems like 'common sense' to critical type thinkers doesn't even dawn on too many.
It’s genuinely hard to believe this is a real speech
Kale is good. Leave kale out of this.
Is Senator Kennedy's stand-up character Mr. Dunning or Mr. Kruger?
Watch John Kennedy from Lousiana in 2004. He was completely different guy at the time
When you defund education for decades, this is what you
This is what you.
As I've been saying for years, it's "celebrity over substance", not necessarily anti-intellectualism which kind of misses the point. Pretty obviously true when you consider Trump. Lake, Walker, Oz - whose only qualification is name recognition, which the Trumpster thinks should be enough.
What's interesting is that the same thing happened in the UK back in 2015 with the EU referendum. Michael Gove (at the time, the Justice Secretary) stated in an interview that the UK needed to take back control from elitists (thankfully coming from one of the few members of the Conservative Party's upper echelon that wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth) and that the people had "had enough of experts" when the studies showing the negative impact of the leave vote were highlighted.
I'll never understand how the rightwing parties can be loaded with people who never want for anything can convince those in poverty to vote against their own interests. The only thing I can think of is to play the less educated against their own interests by beckoning to topics like immigration...
I happen to love kale and eat it daily, thank you very much!
Senator Foghorn!
Splendid example of what happens when there's incest in them there hills. 😵
Anti-intellectualism goes back to the pioneers in this country. We've always had people living in cities, where there was a college, and people living as far away from society as possible. Even the first English translation of the Bible wasn't in the U.S. until 1782. There were still intelligent people, back then, of course. But it was very easy to not be intelligent. It's still very easy to not read, study, practice critical thinking.
Senator Kennedy needs to retire and return to Louisiana!!
Richard Hofstadter wrote the book 60-plus years ago.
Both sides divide.
Adlai Stevenson got grief for being an "egghead." It's nothing new.
As a Louisianan, I can’t stand the way Kennedy talks. He definitely resonate with a certain group of people 🙄🙄🙄
Interestingly, this issue was once a truly riveting feature of a severe “divide” WITHIN the Democratic Party. The Southern Senate Caucus (exclusively Democrat) was once the most powerful voting block in America and often referred to as the South’s “revenge for Gettysburg”. One of the lasting relics of this period was actor Kenny Delmar’s satiric Southern Senator Beauregard Claghorn.
As a Connecticut architect who has done work in Virginia, Florida and North Carolina, I have been often struck by interactions with some truly gifted individuals…both Black and White…working in the construction and engineering fields who, nevertheless, I sometimes have wished had “subtitles” displayed while I was talking with them. “Southern” has in many respects become synonymous with “backward” or “low IQ” which is absolutely unfair.
And yet, to hear people like Kennedy drag it out and try to paint ALL progressives as condescending snobs, while he himself tries to play Cleghorn is disgusting.
It is worth noting that in 1928 Al Smith, one of the fathers of Progressive politics and one of Americas greatest urban populists ONLY won Confederate states during his disastrous 1928 run against Herbert Hoover. Smith had a distinctive “New Yawk” urban Irish drawl and western and mid-western voters hated him for it. He was lampooned as a tottering, Catholic, alcoholic, corrupt urban politician…which he absolutely wasn’t.
Only loyal-to-the-core Confederate state Democrats voted for him.
There was once a time…
Isn't it true that Senator Foghorn Leghorn went to OXFORD? I guess he forgot.
This is really one of the most pressing issues in the country... If you can't agree on basic facts, how can you are on the problems or their solutions?
That's actually a separate and bigger issue than the anti-intellectualism. But both have been fostered and exacerbated by right wing Christianity.
As someone who has been around special needs individuals for my entire life, I feel very confident saying that Congressman Cletus’ uncle is (probably) also his Pappy.
Ironically the Puritans wanted their ministers highly educated so they founded many universities. In the 1820’s the preachers said “we don’t need no stinking education all we need is the Bible.” During Jackson’s presidency, roaming “tent revivals” became popular. Ref: Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter, 1964
Being woke involves curiosity in how or why things work, the hunt for answers and growing awareness.
David NEVER takes Trump’s anointing into account.
?? Anointing by who?
@@ericwilliams1659 Anointing by CHRIST JESUS.
@@michaelbeavis2632 wow that is impressive. Pray tell, who witnessed this?
When did this happen?
@@ericwilliams1659 CHRIST JESUS has anointed President Donald J Trump for such a time as this to lead America and the world against the spirits of Antichrist, Jezebel and Leviathan.
The anointing took place in the Courts of Heaven shortly before Trump came down the escalator to announce his candidacy in 2016.
@@michaelbeavis2632 ok so definitely after Trump broke several of the 10 commandments but before turning himself into a Golden Idol.
A friend at the gym, unfortunately diagnosed as dyslexic as a kid, is all in on trump. He can't read.
These people have always been around. They sat in the background and complain a lot.Always have and will be some. Take notice and be alert. 😳😳
Listen to that guy hahahahaha
Lets go georgia
I don’t hate Jefferson or Washington, who were both trained as Surveyors, and Civil Engineers. Jefferson was also a fairly good Architect. Both were extremely well educated for the time. And, neither was a “Christian”. “Make Americ Smart Again, and Great Will Follow”
Theez haa ah Q darn tuk ah jerbs… derp a deeerrr 😂
Notice Kennedy's "Run Herschel Run" pin. This gross reference to Forrest Gump proves the point if this video. It also insults Herschel Walker.
Well, I have to agree with one thing, kale really isn't very tasty, I'd rather eat some celery or beets or just about any other vegetable
There needs to be a mandatory minimum IQ score for individuals to be allowed to vote and have kids
Exactly. There should be a voters pass port. Knowing of cognitive biases and exhibit you have some idea how you are being influenced.
??? Is it true the IRS lowered the threshold for taxes to $600? If so please explain it for us.
Kennedy is not only wrong. He is wrong at the top of his voice! SMH
I could be considered "high IQ" in the state I live in (perhaps not so much in other states), but I have no issue with George Washington (other than his owning slaves and being overrated as a president), Thomas Jefferson (who did not believe Jesus was divine and edited his own New Testament called the "Jefferson Bible" to reflect this), or Dr. Seuss (unless there is something awful I do not know about him). The most disturbing aspect of this is that conservative's makeup whatever they want to believe about Democrats: they're "groomers" who want to talk about sex to your kids; they eat babies after sacrificing them to Satan (that's a real article a nutjob from my hometown was passing around on Facebook believing it was fact), etc. It's scary for those of us who are liberal living in extremist red states.
This is a stab in the back of one of the oldest principals of politics. What is known as the philosopher king, basically the idea of the smartest and most well versed person in said field should be the leader. In turn this is why we have representatives, and I don't want a senate filled with random people. Worse yet stupid people. People in office should be very politically savvy. In the same way I don't want a mechanic, who knows less about cars then I do.