Republicans turn their back on the Enlightenment

[Anonymous]

But nowadays, to get far in the Republican party, you can’t be part of what George Bush might call the reality-based community. It’s a worrying state of affairs: America is becoming an intellectual two-speed nation, with a technocratic, informed elite and a scientifically illiterate rump who are falling behind economically in their increasingly knowledge-based economy. The GOP is increasingly the party of the uneducated...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100128559/republicans-turn-their-back-on-the-enlightenment/

[TheManWithAUsername]

No news there. I don't see any evidence of the party becoming less educated, though, though it wouldn't surprise me.

It's a little hard to tease out the relationship between education and ideology b/c rich kids get better educations. The last data I saw (pretty old, now) showed the left and right to be about the same, but the left to have both more smarter and more dumber people (i.e., instead of a normal distribution it's a double hump).

As I say that, though, I can't quite remember if that was IQ or education...

Anyway, I think it's still a leap to say that Reps are increasingly uneducated w/o a good study.

It's obvious that the dominant attitude of the party is anti-science, though - it's one of their key principles.