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Why is it that some people seem to want to denigrate some parts of the US (and to much the same extent UK) electorate because they voted for someone else.
I've seen several reports now saying the election result was the result of the "uneducated/blue collar workers" voting for Trump or Brexit, with the inference these people really don't know what they're doing and shouldn't have a vote.
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The British ethologist and author of the book The God Delusion wrote how "the two largest nations in the English-speaking world have just suffered catastrophes at the hands of voters - in both cases the uneducated, anti-intellectual portion of voters".from here http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11746387 is a good example.
How arrogant can some people be?
Just because you have some form of higher education doesn't mean you know best. Just as there are uneducated fools, there are educated fools.
I'm reminded of the story of the aircraft with 5 people on board that was about to crash. There was only 4 parachutes. On board was of course the pilot, an elderly man of the cloth, a rising leader, a young back packer and a recent university graduate.
One person was going to miss out on a parachute. It was decided that the rising leader should have a parachute as the country needed people like him, the pilot had a young family so he got a parachute, the university graduate spoke up and made a case for him to have a parachute as well, since he was a brainy highly educated intellectual.
That left the back packer and the Minister. The Minister said to the young backpacker that as he was elderly and had only a short time left to do good in this world and as the backpacker was young and had plenty of time to achieve good things the young backpacker should have the last parachute.
The rising leader grabbed a parachute and jumped out, as did the brainy intellectual and the pilot. As the Minister was about to farewell the young backpacker the backpacker handed him a parachute. The Minister protested and told the backpacker he should take it as already agreed, to which the backpacker replied there was no need, as the brains trust had grabbed his backpack and there was a parachute for the both of them. 
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