This may rub some people the wrong way, but I think Islam’s founding general - Muhammad - was also a brilliant man. He devised an ideology that created a huge empire in his lifetime and managed to organize armies that stayed loyal to him through conquests of great swathes of land. His less savory side includes pedophilia, rape, enslavement, mass murder and looting. But all of the empire he conquered in his lifetime remains Muslim today.
Ummmm, in a totalitarian state, leaders don't have to give up power. If dictators lose power the "up and coming thugs" kill and purge... gets ugly fast.
Brilliant men don’t always benefit society. They can be incredibly brilliant and a dead loss to civilization.
Gehghis Khan and Napoleon were brilliant men.
I, by no means, am any type of scholar. Didn’t go to college or get great grades in high school. I make a pretty good living and should continue to unless the “brilliant” elites in charge continue to do things that destroy the economy.
I often wonder how many of these “brilliant” people are really that “brilliant”. Seems to me that many of these incredibly “brilliant” socialists just want a way to be kings and in control of others lives. They are book smart and come up with “bigger and better” ideas for Utopia on Earth.
Most of these political elites have never done an honest day’s work. Look at the “brilliant” one in chief. He’s gotten where he is because he makes good speeches. What in the world has he ever accomplished in his life? Nothing.
But she’s a comrade. What do Jews who empower the Left expect? Comrades have to break some eggs on the way to Utopia and everyone understands that. Sometimes it is Christian eggs and sometimes it is Jewish eggs.