It’s tough to have an argument based on facts with someone who only understands every third word in a sentence and whose appreciation of the march of history goes back only as far as Ronald Reagan’s inauguration. There’s also this bit of truth to keep in mind, from John Stuart Mill: “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”

I would say ‘all stupid people are conservative’ but I guess I’m not as liberal as the late JSM. Still, I have years of evidence for my less tolerant claim accrued from the Information Superhighway that turned out to be a continous cloverleaf loop to the right in a clown car for many. Ah, well, as Mark Twain wrote: “Everything has its limit — iron ore cannot be educated into gold.” And it’s still true over a century later.