QOTD: "The Republicans have waged a war on people who know things, and then act shocked ..."

[phantom power]

Wankercons like Brooks and Douthat like to sigh and moan about how the populace has little faith in long cherished public institutions, but they never make the connection to the fact that the reason the people have no faith in these institutions, whether they be government, the medical community, religious institutions, big business, the police, etc., is because conservatives have spent the last half century destroying them in order to achieve their own short term political goals. The Republicans have waged a war on people who know things, and then act shocked that no one trust scientists and teachers and politicians.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/04/30/they-perverted-everything/