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Originally Posted by Parallex
Precisely, speaking for myself the moment the Tories decided to personally smear Dion, one of the brighter minds to hold public office, as some some kind of bumbling fool was moment I wanted them out. It was so very very low.
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The contemptuous smearing of the academe and the draconian treatment of scientists, coupled with the paradoxical raising up of Harper as a brilliant economic mind, is one of the more interesting paradoxes of the Tory strategy during past decade.
The Tories see such moves as legit because they believe that politics is the realm of sophists, not true philosophers. Socrates was (as they would undoubtedly say), after all, put to death for being too intelligent. They believe that the philosopher, and by extension the truth itself, have no real place in the city.