Second: sincere intelligent people can believe stupid things because they have an unacknowledged NEED to believe them. Smart people can be and often are delusional.
I read today Zimbabweans–the recipients of the sort of government Bernie Sanders advocates–have been reduced by hunger to feeding on rats and stray animals. Who among the left wants to own this outcome? Who wants to explain to me how the money ran out inVenezuela, where they literally can’t keep the lights on or provide toilet paper?
My root anger, the core reason I persevere in following and caring about politics, is that if people of goodwill and intelligence fall asleep at the wheel, there is no limit to the scoundrels and buffoons eager to lead us into ruin. The suffering this will entail is unnecessary. It iscometely preventable. And yet it remains likely. It remains the presumptive future of nearly all of us.