‘No. Not until learning is the only choice left.’
Why are we so hardheaded? Or naive? Or ethical?
Don’t get me wrong: I think we conservatives are a very smart bunch of folks, certainly Trump is. And yet, we’ve walked into pitfalls time and time again.
Well, I think its because folks are intellectually lazy and resistant to seeing the truth in front of their faces. People are capable of logic, but default to emotion and will construct elaborate myths to protect themselves from truths they don’t want to see. An extreme example is Germany in the mid 1930’s. In retrospect we wonder why any Jew or Romany would’ve stayed in Germany. Yet too many did. They told themselves comfortable lies and by the time kristallnacht rolled around, it was mostly too late to act.