Reply #9: PhD candidate here as well

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Spending my entire adult life in academe has shown me that not all intellectuals are smart. I've known some utter fools with prestigious doctorates. The one thing they all have in common is their unshakable conviction that they are smarter than everyone else.

And, frankly, the word "sheeple" sets my teeth on edge. It's very hard for me to imagine Mother Jones or Eugene Debs denouncing the Great Unwashed the way so many of us do here. When was the last time the Left really tried to reach the masses? While the Right was setting up a media machine to propagandize the working class, we were taking over the English Department and writing Lacanian analyses of Madonna videos. We're way behind them, and sitting around preening ourselves on how oh-so-intelligent and aware we are will not catch us up.