he is not very bright, battle star is a great show.
I would counter that. Many of these guys are bright. They are, however, frustrated when their intent to befuddle and obscure with the mud of duplicitous and decietful argumentation is met with the power washer of clear example and the like. When you start clarifying terms, noting past action (EG our system having been supported by tarrifs from the time of Washington), etc, their arguments begin faltering and they get steamed.
Lack of intelligence isn't the problem. They are smart. They're just using the smarts to bs everyone and when they don't get away with it and are exposed in the doing, they get angered like a thief caught red-handed .. deamanding his rights and protesting his innocence till the jury sees the tape. Later the thief wants to argue technicalities, entrapment, you name it. These people are addicts where profit is concerned. And unless we intervene in the situation, their treason will be all our undoing. The alcoholic will fight for his whiskey right up till his liver erupts. And it isn't a pretty fight. Why should we expect these addicts to respond any differently? It isn't smarts they are lacking in.. To quote Miller, "It is their judgement that has been sorely lacking."