Reply #6: A combination of JEALOUSY and FEAR of the UNKNOWN.

[Richard Steele]

Becoming educated often requires personal CHANGE.

Humans FEAR change.

Some of us become MATURE enough to confront that primal fear,
and overcome it to varying degrees.

Others NEVER reach that stage of maturity;
they cling to the comfort of familiar ideas,
and remain trapped in an infantile psychological state.

As an example: Their support of B*sh's "foreign policy"
is no more than a re-phrasing of the old mantra, "My
dad can beat up your dad".

Similarly, all of their other "opinions" are
merely knee-jerk emotional responses, relics of
an arrested juvenile development.