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Thanks so much for Mr. Bowman's insightful anatomy of the vitriolic hatred of President Bush by the leftist elite.

I am not an intellectual -- I am, however, an academic, having recently received a Ph.D. despite the fact that I do not cotton much to the liberal elite who ran my program and who run the majority of higher education programs in the country.

It was, shall I say, not exactly difficult to co-exist with my peers as I pursued my degree, but it was quickly plain to me from a social point of view that I ought to keep my "ideas" to myself. Which I did.

Still, I successfully wended my way through the program, despite the fact that I was aware that any number of slips might submarine my chances of getting my degree. I made it by telling myself, continually, that it was important to come to understand what motivated liberals to accept what it was they professed to believe about the world, about people, and about that ever more nebulous concept sometimes still called "the truth."

I learned a great deal.

But Mr. Bowman has hit the nail on the head in identifying the self-fulfilling prophecy of the elite's self-congratulatory behavior. It should come as no surprise to their penetrating minds that their philosophy guarantees that they should remain in the minority -- after all, a heck of a lot more people are dumb than smart, right? Why they rail that the mundane majority continues to, in their minds, elect rubes like President Bush, is something of a paradox. It should compliment their own sense of superiority that the low outnumber the high.

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