Originally Posted by ridethecliche

Isaac Asimov said it far more eloquently than I could ever hope to so I'll just leave his words from 1980 here:
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way throughout political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”"