I read the editorial in the June 26th Pioneer Journal, and I have to say that I was extremely shocked by the candor of Steve Schulz. Here is a newspaper reporter who is claiming that the term "elitist" is not only meaningless, but that people should strive to be elitists! That is terribly, horribly wrong.
The Elitist Menace as we know it began around the year 2000, when people were encouraged to vote for Al Gore, for no other reason than he was the most qualified candidate! Still, our country proved that it hadn't lost all of its values by voting for George W. Bush, who ran on the now-famous "I'm Not Qualified, but Vote For Me Anyways, Because that Means I'm Just Like You!" platform, but the danger remains. What kind of society do we live in where the most qualified person is the one who gets the job? That's Affirmative Action at its worst. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather have just an average dude operate on my kidneys than a well-educated, qualified surgeon. That's because while the surgeon clouded his mind with "education," which is nothing more than the meaningless opinions of his professors, the average dude learned everything he needed to know about the human body in the "real world," through bar fights and stuff.
All I'm really trying to say here is that elitists need to be stopped. If we elect intelligent, eloquent people as our leaders, how could our C-average students even have a hope of becoming one some day? Americans, vote for the everyman. He's the one who'll listen to you.
Kevin Klawitter
Wadena
