No idea of the context regarding his statement, nor do I honestly care.
My point is academic accolades are pushed mightily by those on the left as qualifiers of higher intellectual capacity and as such to certify that they then have "the only correct answers" to all worlds socioeconomic woes.
Seems to me a healthy dose of common sense is more of what's needed, a commodity seldom found to be present in sufficient amounts in academics in positions of political power
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