Holding the uninformed in contempt

Jazz has an excellent post below on Bob Herbert's op-ed today and as Jazz points out:

Attempts to educate the Bush supporters failed, and they voted based on what they thought they knew. Nothing is going to change the past at this point, and pointing out such ignorance isn't going to do anything but anger the majority who are already mad as hornets. Bob's use of words like "cluelessness" and "brain on hold" won't produce any positive results.

This ties in with the post I had here a few days ago, Angry White People which looks at the attitudes of the people in the South.

They have come to the conclusion that they are going to be screwed regardless of which party is in power, and they prefer to be screwed by a group that doesn't appear to hold them in contempt.

We will not find supporters among people we hold in contempt. There is a current of anti intellectualism in the United States that is fed by this contempt. We see the results not only at the polls but in the school curriculums as creationism is taught next to or instead of evolution. Many of us need a serious attitude calibration or the forces of darkness will prevail. I admit that I need this calibration as much as anyone. I have a very low tolerance for uninformed ignorance. When Spiro Agnew referred to "effete snobs" in the early 70's I'm sure he was talking about me. I'll look around, maybe there is a 12 step program for "effete snobs".
Note: when I refer to the "South" it is in a figurative sense, there is a lot of the "South" in the North and on the Coasts.