One's faith in democracy shudders and trembles. The marching morons, indeed. OK, let's restrict the franchise. People as willfully ignorant as that should not be permitted to vote. That should fix it.
Intellectuals are even more statist than the population at large.
The lady on O'Reilly seemed, in fact, to be articulate and well-educated. All are, or have been, championed by highly credentialled intellectuals. All breed in our colleges and universities like cultures on last week's mayonnaise at the back of the refrigerator. It has been remarked, surely correctly, that if, in 1920, the franchise had been restricted to holders of Ph.D.s, we should have had a Soviet America in very short order, and would now be digging ourselves out of the very same pit the poor Russians find themselves in. The fact is that political stupidity is a special kind of stupidity, not well correlated with intelligence, or with other varieties of stupidity.