Salesman with Rhodes Scholarships: Really smart people, like really smart teachers, can take complex ideas and present as though they are fairly simple.
In addition, politicians must do this. Some French guy very wisely described politicians as \"The Great Simplifiers\".
The opposition, which these days is really people who want to implement a more right wing agenda. The current Republicans and their ilk are the most common. What they believe is that welfare should be largely for corporations (which of course emply people and pay their wages) and that income redistribution is fundamentally wrong. They critisize Clinton, Blair and Hawke because they offer something that is popular that is a real threat to their attempted implmentation of their agenda.
Hawke and Clinton are both Rhodes scholars. Blair has a law degree from Fettes college. This compares well to Bush II and Reagan. They may be salesmen, but they are salesman with the intellectual capability to back it up.
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