Ouch! Hurricane Camille (Paglia) Strikes Democrats…Again

Although her fellow Democrats will no doubt dismiss Camille Paglia’s latest diatribe regarding the sorry state of intellectual honesty on the Left, they would be wise to heed her words. Paglia offers a damning articulation of the dissatisfaction so many Americans feel toward Big Government and those that shill for it.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers (one reason for the hypocritical absence of tort reform in the healthcare bills). Weirdly, given their worship of highly individualistic, secularized self-actualization, such professionals are as a whole amazingly credulous these days about big-government solutions to every social problem.

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affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why? Is it because the new professional class is a glossy product of generically institutionalized learning? Independent thought and logical analysis of argument are no longer taught. Elite education in the U.S. has become a frenetic assembly line of competitive college application to schools where ideological brainwashing is so pandemic that it’s invisible. The top schools, from the Ivy League on down, promote “critical thinking,” which sounds good but is in fact just a style of rote regurgitation of hackneyed approved terms (“racism, sexism, homophobia”) when confronted with any social issue.

Maybe classical liberalism isn’t dead after all.

Bring on the “Camille Paglia isn’t a REAL liberal” comments. As if we didn’t know that.