Based upon his earlier comments disparaging the intellectual elites’ continuing dominance in American Democracy that it was not meant as a compliment. Our intellectual decision makers have an amazing way of being able to ignore basic human nature.
Sorry to be pedantic but I wouldn’t say it’s amazing how they ignore human nature. It’s what you would predict if you consider who these people are. Our intellectual decision makers are a mix of megalomaniacs and simpletons.
The simpletons don’t ignore human nature. They are just unintelligent, so factoring something like that in creates a level of complexity they can’t manage. That’s how you get single-factor analysis gems like ‘virus bad close society virus stop’ and ‘Putin bad shoot boom boom until Putin lose’. They are just dumb people.
And then there’s the megalomaniacs who have ideas so great that the ideas will overcome human nature. Anyways, we are screwed.
“You do not have a proper democracy by having self-chosen moral people who are above the public”
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I was wondering whether his one-word assessment of Obama was not meant to compliment?
Based upon his earlier comments disparaging the intellectual elites’ continuing dominance in American Democracy that it was not meant as a compliment. Our intellectual decision makers have an amazing way of being able to ignore basic human nature.
Sorry to be pedantic but I wouldn’t say it’s amazing how they ignore human nature. It’s what you would predict if you consider who these people are. Our intellectual decision makers are a mix of megalomaniacs and simpletons.
The simpletons don’t ignore human nature. They are just unintelligent, so factoring something like that in creates a level of complexity they can’t manage. That’s how you get single-factor analysis gems like ‘virus bad close society virus stop’ and ‘Putin bad shoot boom boom until Putin lose’. They are just dumb people.
And then there’s the megalomaniacs who have ideas so great that the ideas will overcome human nature. Anyways, we are screwed.
For me: that's what foreign policy does. It's a combination of interest and values, and you balance them.
Find any US politician willing to live that.
Yeah, I underlined that statement as well. So well spoken.
I also loved the line that he would rather be correct, than politically correct