Boston Citizens vs. Harvard Faculty

[© tweed]

..the English russophile intelligentsia... is really voicing their secret wish: the wish to destroy the old, equalitarian version of Socialism and usher in a hierarchical society where the intellectual can at last get his hands on the whip..

[© tweed]

Because yes a few bad apples dictates what the whole city of Boston was like during the 1960s. Those people failed at the ballot box (except for maybe a fluke victory by Louise Day Hicks), and for good reason.  Bostonites were very divided over the issue but they more often than not in those days fell on the right side of history.  Your strawmanning is absurd.

busing was a huge issue in Boston in the 60s and 70s.  white Bostonians didn't want their kids bused into the ghetto. see Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s



I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
As long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me
Love me, I'm a liberal

[© tweed]

Anyway, the idea that anyone would prefer 2000 random people over 2000 of the smartest and most accomplished people in their fields (and in incredibly varied fields, from law to medicine to science to art to philosophy to history) to run a country is absurd to me.

kneejerk anti-meritocracy.  not a bad instinct to have, but the average American's soul has been so warped for so long that an oligarchic collectivist/technocratic dictatorship could be a better option.