Obama -- American Badass

[Deckard]

Re. being unable to use a computer, the Republicans have long been better than the Democrats at grasping (or exploiting) the fact that:

- voters like it when a leader comes across as ignorant, a bit dumb.
- votes dislike it (in fact feel contempt) when a leader comes across as intelligent.

Course that's a generalization, but from years of following politics, that seems to be the prevailing opinion. Being or sounding dumb wins elections.

Not just in your country either. A culture of anti-intellectualism (if you want to call it that) seems to infect many Western countries. Rather than respect someone's intelligence and knowledge, 'we' seem to feel repelled by it. Yet sounding tough is looked on much more favourably.

And let's not beat around the GWB here.... for some reason, and to a large extent, voters inclined to the political right tend to succumb to this more readily than those on the left. John Wayne in the Searchers rather than Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird. I wonder why?