Intellectuals

Maybe only those who can read and write should be allowed to vote?

Nah, then we might not have the sorts of idiots we usually get for Congress, left and right.

"... according to polls, Americans are approximately as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution, and when one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the Earth."

Op-Ed Columnist - Obama and the War on Brains - NYTimes.com: 

"An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity. Intellectuals read the classics, even when no one is looking, because they appreciate the lessons of Sophocles and Shakespeare that the world abounds in uncertainties and contradictions, and — President Bush, lend me your ears — that leaders self-destruct when they become too rigid and too intoxicated with the fumes of moral clarity."