TimeofChange yes, of course comparing your opposition to the BNPand yourself to a member of the Anti-Nazi League is offensive... But perhaps some form of martyrish Godwinism was inevitable, considering this thread originated in a discussion of the Berlin Wall remedy...
LaQueen
It gives them a little filip of self importance, to assert skeptisim, and claim superior knowledge over people who are hugely better educated, more qualified, better researched and more professionally regarded than they could ever be...
All those years, sat in the back of the classroom, with 75% of the lessons winging over their heads...grinding their teeth with resentment at the clever kids at the front, understanding, answering the questions, passing the exams...going on to spend years and years at university to become nurses, doctors, surgeons, biologists, chemists, pharmacists.
I think that's an over-simplification. You'll find just as many "clever" people with degrees it took years to study for, but who seem unable to see that degree-level knowledge in one area doesn't make one qualified to pontificate on another area at degree-level or post-degree area. See: Cherie Booth, who has been mooted as a role model.