"Well it's been a while since any of my middle class, union working friends used the words "unregenerate", "troglodyte" or "polyhedral" in an insult."

Clearly you need to start hanging out with a better-educated group of middle class union workers! You unreticulated crabgrass smeller!

Okay, sorry, just having some fun there. In the vein of "your father smellt of eldeberries, and your mother was a petri dish!"

But don't you think there is something to the notion that only in the hands of a well-educated populace will democracy's needs be seen to?

If we're all just fish biting at the best bait we see, isn't that a bit of a problem for the idea of democracy?

Doesn't that lead to just the sort of condition that our hero GW was describing when he said, "fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, um, fool, err, shame, um, well sure you don't get fooled again!"

And by the way, should the President have to pay royalties to The Who for that?

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