It seems that the U.S. is declining into an era of anti-intellectualism that is very disturbing to me. I hear more and more in elections that the voters want a "man of the people," but aren't our leaders supposed to be the best and the brightest? It seems ridiculous to me that while the other nations of the world are electing these tremendously bright minds to lead them, we force our politicians to play dumb to gain favor with us.
For example, I was watching Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and he talks about how he became aware of global warming in college. Gore went to college at Harvard, but he goes out of his way to never say the word Harvard in the entire film because people look at that as elitist. Shouldn't we expect our leaders to be smarter than us?
Am I missing something, because I don't think that the President needs to be handsome and hip as much as intelligent and qualified?
2007-04-24
17:01:04
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