On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:01:10 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-03-24 11:50 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
>It's always a little amusing to see ignorant people trying to joke about
>their ignorance.

He seems proud of it even. "I'm an idiot. Why aren't you?"