I certainly think there are many Democrats in this category; but the most terrifying ones are the “true believers” who are idiots themselves.
I have come to believe that “stupidity” is not defined by IQ, but by worldview; the fool - regardless of how “smart” he is or how many degrees he has - believes that which is patently untrue. Because of his/her prior commitment to a perverse and false worldview, he cannot possibly understand the world as it really is.
Justice Brandeis said, “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
Liberal intellectuals are those who have deeply studied the works of propagandists and ideologues, and as a result have a patently false and distorted understanding of the real world.
Good quote from Justice Brandeis... I’ll add it to my growing collection. Here’s another one attributed to Cicero on this same subject. As he describes the “traitor from within”, don’t Barney Frank, Pelosi, Reid and other slimey Dems come to mind?
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city, but the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through the alley and heard in the very halls of government itself. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”
Cicero