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Yeah, sure. And I can find plenty of conservative examples of assuming people on the left are stupid. I'm of the opinion, though, that on average the left tends to dismiss those who disagree with them as stupid while on average the right tends to dismiss those who disagree with them as immoral.
I'm sure we can agree that truly idiotic things are said by all sorts of people from all points on the political spectrum. And we all tend to pretend that our **** don't stink on our side of the fence. But the leadership (to the extent there is one, maybe a better phrase would be "those members getting prominent media attention") can hardly sit there agog and naive to this idea while crapping out their own fair share of rather stupid ****.
With most political operatives playing out this form of theater I generally suspect that they're perfectly aware they're staying stupid (and sadly, political effective) nonsense but feel that's the way the game is played. It is hard to say whether it speaks well or poorly of her that Sharron Angle seems to actually believe the nonsense she says.
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