Sunday, August 26, 2007

You stupid, GOP-voting rubes

David Brooks eviscerates some professor's book on Americans' voting choices:

Finally, if voter decisions are driven by the sort of crude emotional outbursts Westen recommends, and if, as he writes, "a substantial minority of Americans hold authoritarian, intolerant ideologies driven by fear, hate and prejudice that are fundamentally incompatible with Democratic (and democratic) principles," then shouldn't we abandon this whole democracy thing? Shouldn't we have a coup, led perhaps by the Emory psychology department, which could prevent the brutish and hate-filled from ever gaining control?
Peter Pace, arrest this professor before his message of "truth to power" reaches the people!

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