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Let's be a bit more careful here. There is no correlation between intelligence and goodness. Clearly, some of the more intelligent among us -- at least as measured in test scores, grades, and credentials from selective institutions -- are currently among our most vicious (Cruz, Hawley, DeSantis, and D'Souza in the first tier; Abbott in the second).

One of the wisest and most generous people I knew had but 8th grade schooling; and an extended family member with Down's syndrome had a heart of gold.

At the very core, if you peel away all the rationalization, lies envy at the core -- that thing which we so well cultivated as stimulus to a consumer economy. Once called the root of all evil -- well, really and truly it is.

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Yes, indeed, there certainly credulous people. However, isn't the phenomenon of "if they are for it, we are against it" not a matter of credulity, but one of self definition and identity? What's the matter with Kansas, so to speak, was not failure to comprehend self-interest, it was not accepting some outsider's definition of it. Kansans are not gullible, they just don't like us telling them what to believe.

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