This is part of the rhetoric that pushed people towards Trump.
Instead of asking why they didn't consider voting Democrat or why Trump was a consideration you respond with the equivalent of "well maybe you're not an intellectual"
I've seen a trend of Democrats resorting to attacking anyone that has different views than they do instead of taking the time to understand.
It does nothing to bridge the gap and bring people to your side. The opposing view still exists without being challenged. I would imagine it just pushes some people into an echo chamber of their own.
You respond with the equivalent of "well maybe you're not an intellectual".
That isn't what they said. They said that the PhD, by itself, isn't sufficient evidence of intellectualism.
Which is a perfectly natural reaction to have to anyone who, like the commenter being responded to, holds up their PhD as a defense of their intellectual prowess.
I really don't believe this is just a trend in Democrats; Republicans aren't innocent of this either. They'll resort to the overused labels of "socialist," "woke," or "un-American" for anyone with progressive views.
The whole system is just so polarized that both sides absolutely despise each other, and so both side dehumanize the other. I don't see this ever improving, it's just a shit show where both sides blindfold themselves to opposing ideas and fling as much of it as they can.
Trump won the popular vote. So it seems you have two options:
1. Convince yourself that the majority of the country are in the "cult of MAGA" and that you will never win their votes. With this option Democrats will never win the Presidency again - in fact, Democrats can simplify all our lives and simply stop competing in Presidential elections! There's no point - the majority are in the "cult of MAGA" so Democrats can never win.
2. Do some introspection and realize that while a significant portion of country are in the "cult of MAGA", the reason Trump won is because another portion of the country is just fed up with the current vision of the Democratic party. https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-tale-of-two-machines
1. The average voter is complicit in voting in the person into office yes or do you think that Hitler magically got elected by Aliens?
That however does not correlate what so damn ever with what I said, I specifically said that people suggest democrats have to do amends with Republicans, the same base that foster actual lunatics who has called for the death of the opposition, who has said that the entire democratic party is degenerate oh and made fun of the attempted murder of Nancy Pelosi's husband.
Just say that you think the victim is to be blamed and that the perpetrator is innocent because they just HAD to do it.
2. Again love the victim blaming, let's not hold each accountable for what they do no let's only hold 1 side accountable who already tries to some degree to be accountable and instead gaslight and victim blame those who expect the republicans to take the same accountability.
Whenever or not people are fed up with the democrats is irrelevant when the opposition is saying actually crazy shit like "let me suspend the constitution for 1 day and I'll fix everything", sounds eerily familiar to "let me enact the enabling act, promise 1 month and I'll fix everything".
So you have presented me with: 1. victim blaming and 2. victim blaming, what a good choice.
But hey, hope you like me get to enjoy that juicy 20% tariff causing prices to deflate so much it causes an unsigned integer overflow.
This is my point exactly. Independent of ones intelligence, it stands that someone with a phd isn't exactly anti-intellectualism (which is what the parent post was about, but it seems many people missed)
>And the rise of anti intelllectualism in the USA continues to rise.
