>>” while it may be true that there was an attempt to deceive the intent was to provide a better way for those who stay uninformed and less educated on the issue. Smart isn’t always popular”
This whole episode is more vindication for Thomas Sowell and his excellent book The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, which came out in 1996.
“Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites—the anointed—have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.”
http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy/dp/046508995X/
Leftist leaders as exemplified by Gruber (and Obama!) are arrogantly sure they know what is best for all others, and work to give it to them good and hard. They are the (self-) anointed.
This whole episode is more vindication for Thomas Sowell and his excellent book The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, which came out in 1996.