Reply #103: Very good point. [View All]

It's important to know your enemy, and an awful lot of people here at DU seem to know nothing at all about our enemies.

As you point out, there's a common assumption here that religious fundamentalists are poor and inbred. Not the case. Nor are they necessarily stupid.

A while back someone started a thread claiming that Pat Robertson was unfamiliar with judicial review. Now I loathe Robertson, but he is not dumb. He's a Phi Beta Kappa from Washington & Lee, and a graduate of Yale Law and the University of London. He also built a $200,000,000 media empire by getting old ladies to send him their social security checks. Evil, but not dumb, and assuming that people like Robertson and Bush are dumb can only help them. Molly Ivins has made this point about Bush many times, but most DUers persist in thinking him stupid. He benefits from that.