trying to frame the election as the educated v the uneducated is kind of elitist, and smug. and, it's bullshit - the data doesn't back it up.

it's a part of the reason the democrats have problems with certain key voting groups; they just interpret their critics as being too uneducated to agree with them, rather than bother listening to what they have to say. and, of course, there's great irony underlying the truth of it.

i don't know how old this is. i remember watching free trade protesters just rip apart nafta supporters, who were convinced that they were too stupid to understand the deal, back in the 90s. and, i'm reminded of the famous quip by adlai stevenson: don't send them to jail; send them to school.

i don't want to call these people liberals; they're not. it's the people they attack as uneducated that are generally the actual liberals, in most debates. but, the party needs to get a handle on this mentality and aggressively move to wipe it out.