It’s hard for me to believe I have not said this this way, but maybe not: it’s vastly better to reach the correct conclusion wrongly, than the wrong conclusion correctly.
What matters is if you are on the road to your destination. What matters is results, not intentions.
And the obvious factor that allows Leftists to be wrong across decades and now centuries is that their goals are political, but their political goals are not practical. They want power, and they study that. They don’t care if they help anyone at all, because it is FEELINGS they want, and those feelings are nearly entirely solipsistic and cut off from the world at large.
A couple relevant quotes:
“People need to remember politicians are trying to solve THEIR problems, not yours.” Thomas Sowell (quote approximate)
“If it’s dumb but it works, it isn’t dumb”. My uncle.
If “dumb” rednecks avoid getting the vaccine because they think it contains a microchip that will control their brains, that is likely not just wrong, but ridiculously wrong.
But if these spike protein injections–as I have decided to start calling them–have not too uncommon short term effects, and very common middle and long term effects, then no matter the reason given, it is best that they did not participate in this global medical experiment.
The goal is not to be smart: the goal is to be right, and right is defined by reality, not agreement from your friends, or congruence with some book somewhere.
I’m sure I’ve spoken of it, but the essence of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings–and I think he said this himself–is “always be cutting”. Not “be thinking” of cutting: cutting. Technique does not matter. It does not matter how you get there. It does not matter if you have one conscious thought at all. If you focus on the end result, the means tend to take care of themselves.