Smart and aware are two different things. Never forget that.
I know a lot of really smart people who are liberals and voted for Obama. The problem is not necessarily a lack of intelligence.
One very smart guy I know, a Jew, and the inventor of the Internet Explorer, is telling me that Sharia does not exist and that there is no real good and evil, it’s all relative.
Birdman Bryant, a nazi, is proud to be a member of Mensa (required IQ 130, pfft).
Smart people can be very stupid.
Stupid is as stupid does.