It's rather remarkable how the security apparatus always doubles down on glorifying anti-intellectualism, even though we all know it is the root cause of bigotry in the US. David Masciotra on "Anti-intellectualism is back - because it never went away. And it's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans":
"If anti-intellectualism is a common characteristic of American life, it has mutated into a particularly asinine and lethal form in contemporary politics. A majority of Republicans now believe higher education is "bad for America." Suspicious of anyone with an advanced degree, they are increasingly likely to view anyone with academic credentials as alien from the "real America," where people work with "their hands," as conservative commentators often suggest from their computer terminals or talk-show studios, or to believe that reading books - other than unless the Good Book - is likely to turn true-believing patriots into "globalists" who hate God and love dark-skinned people."
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