Orwell ,and Greenfield's 21st century take on his expose of leftist elitism are spot on except for one inconvienient truth; that being the fact that the downtrodden and the unwashed masses are, for the most part, ignorant, uninformed, and incapable of critical thinking. Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh have been very successful utilizing this unspeakable truth.

Oh My. Workers of the World,Unite.

But please use the service entry.

Wow, good luck getting the support of the "downtrodden and the unwashed masses [who], for the most part, [are] ignorant, uninformed, and incapable of critical thinking."

This is precisely the point of the article, the left is often times condescending and belittle the ones they claim to support.

Good luck with that.

So what's your solution - bring back literacy tests and (real) property ownership as requirements for voting?

How about worrying less whether our kids are being tought "good morals" in school (a moving target if I've ever seen one) and more about whether they're being tought good critical thinking and logic skills...

That may well be true, but it says nothing about why Rove and Limbaugh are more successful in appealing to those ignorant masses than the Left is. If Rove and Limbaugh can dupe them, why can't the left employ the same tricks?

What a curious analysis of failure to communicate each political party eschews. From the left perspective the right dupes those middle class workers who are supposedly uninformed. From the rights perspective the left has no idea what these people are about and they do so they are capable of capturing their support. With the left telling these people they are essentially fools clinging to ageless values instead of using their brains it would seem that the right might just be right.

"Hey you stupid asses, can't you see that they're trick'n ya? Vote for me cuz I pointed out what gullible dumb asses you really are!"