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October 29, 2008

Both parties are firmly tied to anti-intellectualism

Anne Applebaum is a friend's favorite Op-Ed writer and he sent me a recent piece, Why I Can't Vote for John McCain: I admire the man, but his party has been taken over by anti-intellectual extremists.
Which he described as "[N]ot great, but a fair assessment."

To which I reply:

I certainly see the Republicans as having their share of problems. However, the Democrats too have their share of policies that our at odds with intellectual thinking and the scientific method.

However, isn't the rejection of free trade by the majority of the Democratic party a sign that they don't care much for science either?
To name a few more, how about Democratic opposition to nuclear power when the coal plants we do operate pump massive amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere?
Is the position of so many Democrats on gun control willful ignorance of the law of supply and demand? Criminals have high demand with respect to legal punishment and law-abiding folk have low demand. Indeed it may be upward sloping, yet somehow they say we are going to guns out of the hands of the former by licensing and restricting the later.
Which party leads opposition against incentive pay for public school teachers? Is that willful ignorance of the economic of the principle agent problem?
The Democrats insist on keeping our corporate income tax among the highest in the world in ignorance of our most basic distinctions between the incidence of a tax and the point at which it is collected.

I say you should vote for the candidate who's policy positions are closest to your own, however that position was arrived upon. Sure, you can't guarantee that they'll vote the way they say they will, but this is the most reliable way to minimize voter's remorse.

Posted by OneEyedMan at October 29, 2008 7:47 AM

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