> Great guys, intelligent and generally good to be around. "Great" and "intelligent" only to the extent that you have actually tested their civic maturity and

> Great guys, intelligent and generally good to be around. "Great" and "intelligent" only to the extent that you have actually tested their civic maturity and intelligence, you mean. Democracy is in trouble because education has become a narrowing of the understanding, not an expansion of reason and civic principles. Meanwhile, the pandemic of ignorance is a lucrative resource for ludicrous discourse.