[Buddha-l] Check out The Right's Stupidity Spreads, Enabled by a Too-Polite Left

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 11-02-12 21:11, sjziobro at cs.com schreef:
> I tend to think that only one on the Left could seriously write this sort of stuff.  Note the tone of equanimity.  One major fallacy is to correlate intelligence with a particular ideology.  Intellectual honesty would lead one to note that there are plenty of highly intelligent people on the Right.  The problem with many on the Left is that they will not claim their opponents are mistaken, but that they are stupid and evil.  This isn't my general experience of the highly intelligent and articulate people on the Right.
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Well Stan, I really would love to grant rightwingers some intelligence, 
but since they believe in the benevolent and flawless mechanism of free 
market and are deaf to environmental issues, I do not see any 
alternative. Looking at the facts an intelligent person should know 
better. Of course there are leftwingers who still believe in Marx and 
Marcuse, but those are just part of the left wing. In the U.S. not 
believing anything makes you a communist already and a very unusual 
Buddhist as well.

Erik