Kinsley is making a point about intellectual dishonesty as a threat to our democracy. He fails to make the equally valid point that personal and candidate ethics, moral values and belief systems are at the root of why people do what they do. Unfortuneately, he is writing for intellectuals and misses the point that people are frail entities that can seldom be relied upon 'to get it right,' according to his defition of the word.
Kinsley is obviously a throbbing liberal intellectual who is morose about the fact that half the country does not share his values and beliefs. And he hasn't ever gotten over the 2000 election results, probably never will.
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