看了的總統競選第二場辯論，覺得華裔總統候選人 Andrew Yang 這次演講得不錯，顯得他很有智慧的樣子。不過，智商高的人在美國的學校裏被人叫 nerd，那可是個貶義詞。打智力牌，打math 牌玩政治行得通嗎？美國的政治是非常的反智主義的，民主黨更是反智主義的急先鋒，靠反智主義起家。但看他能否衝破迷霧，就算能給烏煙瘴氣的美國政壇帶來一小股清新，也值了。
網友“海陬觀者”不同意“民主黨比共和黨更加反智”一說，辯論如下：
從一戰之後，美國的共和黨的政治口號都是以 保守不作大改革為號召，類似於現在 Trump 的口號，不同的是 Trump 明的暗的承認，美國已經不再偉大了，所以才需要說 Make America Great Again. 如果美國依舊偉大，又何必說 again 呢？
Andrew Yang is very articulate and intelligent. However, being articulate does not mean what he advocates makes sense. The universal basic income only makes sense if we abolish other welware measures all together.
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Agree with the blogger's stance.
Here is a nice explanation of the positive effect of the anti-intellectualism excerpted from the Wikipedia entry.
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In the book Intellectuals and Society (2009), Sowell said:
By encouraging, or even requiring, students to take stands where they have neither the knowledge nor the intellectual training to seriously examine complex issues, teachers promote the expression of unsubstantiated opinions, the venting of uninformed emotions, and the habit of acting on those opinions and emotions, while ignoring or dismissing opposing views, without having either the intellectual equipment or the personal experience to weigh one view against another in any serious way.
Hence, school teachers are part of the intelligentsia who recruit children in elementary school and teach them politics—to advocate for or to advocate against a public policy—as part of community-service projects; which political experience later assists them in earning admission to university. In that manner, the intellectuals of a society intervene and participate in social arenas of which they might not possess expert knowledge, and so unduly influence the formulation and realization of public policy. In the event, teaching political advocacy in elementary school encourages students to formulate opinions "without any intellectual training or prior knowledge of those issues, making constraints against falsity few or non-existent."
看了的總統競選第二場辯論，覺得華裔總統候選人 Andrew Yang 這次演講得不錯，顯得他很有智慧的樣子。不過，智商高的人在美國的學校裏被人叫 nerd，那可是個貶義詞。打智力牌，打math 牌玩政治行得通嗎？美國的政治是非常的反智主義的，民主黨更是反智主義的急先鋒，靠反智主義起家。但看他能否衝破迷霧，就算能給烏煙瘴氣的美國政壇帶來一小股清新，也值了。
網友“海陬觀者”不同意“民主黨比共和黨更加反智”一說，辯論如下：
從一戰之後，美國的共和黨的政治口號都是以 保守不作大改革為號召，類似於現在 Trump 的口號，不同的是 Trump 明的暗的承認，美國已經不再偉大了，所以才需要說 Make America Great Again. 如果美國依舊偉大，又何必說 again 呢？
