"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Wish I could claim entire credit for it, but the praised wordplay appears to have occurred more-or-less spontaneously and simultaneously to hundreds, and I have already spotted senior provenances.
The wife was 6 months pregnant with our first child and full-scale nuclear war was imminent.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."