I stopped reading right there.
I suppose most contemporary "intellectuals" are clueless.
Busloads of the senile, dim-witted and illiterates are routinely shuttled from place to place with 'minders' who tell them how to vote.
Pure democracy (mobocracy), which the Founders feared as much as Monarchies, has insidiously crept into our body politic, even our Constitution over the last 100 years until, I fear, the Supreme Court as presently constituted will announce it "legal." The obvious observation of so long ago, that
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 Address
is no longer even remembered.
Close to half of the voting population does not have the brains and minds to qualify as completely human, and "appealing" to reason is a fool's errand.
No, I don't know of a possible way to fix it in the current cultural climate, but I refuse to read the remainder of this Polyanna sermon.
Pollyana?
“Close to half of the voting population does not have the brains and minds to qualify as completely human, and “appealing” to reason is a fool’s errand.”
If you read my work, you’d see I agree. I’m advocating an emotional/neurological manipulation to gain control over a percentage of the half which are too stupid for logic. It would likely be enough to win, and was the method Reagan used to drive Liberalism into the gutter.
But by all means, read the first three sentences, and then render your verdict.