On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:43:00 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
> wrote:

>In article >, graham > wrote:
>
>> "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its
>> way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion
>> that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your
>> knowledge.'" -- Isaac Asimov
>
>I loved Mr. Asimov. I read damned everything he ever wrote including
>his scientific explanations. But I'm going to change the quote above.
>
>The strain of intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its
>way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false
>notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your
>ignorance, but I have a PhD in communist nonsense. -- leo
>
>See what I did there? Why the hell are you and others foreign to the
>United States interested in us at all? I don't even know the name of
>your Prime Ministers, although one possibly authors the cartoon
>"Doonesbury".
>
>leo

your last paragraph says everything
Janet US