During the recent Ontario election campaign, it was surprising to see that the letters to the editor in the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail in in each case opposite to the respective papers' editorial position.  The Globe's letters were consistently opposed to and critical of Harris' plans; the Star's were on both sides, though perhaps the majority were in one way or another supportive of Harris' "ideas."  It has been said that you can't fool all of the people all of the time.  But perhaps you can fool most of the people all of the time, if they happen to be foolish and uneducated to begin with.  It is quite likely that the average Globe reader is more highly educated than that of the Star.  So although one would expect the Globe reader's "objective interests" can be better served by the Harris agenda than by the Liberal or NDP ones, it is probably simply a lot more difficult to fool the Globe's average reader.  He or she is not going to fall for a foolish political platform, no matter what.  Compassion and doing the right thing are not simply subjective "liberal" bleeding-heart emotionalisms.  They also have an objective side, which is intelligence and higher education.  The intellectual elite, out of a kind of "good" snobbery, will not go in for plebian right-wing stances that repudiate high human ideals, which, after all, the elite imagines itself as having created.  Of course in fact another class' struggles created those ideals, but they are a bond between some of the lowest and highest classes.