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> All I want from politicians, and by this I mean literally all I want at this point, is my politicians to be smarter than me ... why? Ted Cruz is almost certa
by petesergeant 1y ago
> All I want from politicians, and by this I mean literally all I want at this point, is my politicians to be smarter than me
... why? Ted Cruz is almost certainly smarter than almost all of us, and I do not want Ted Cruz to be a politician. Boris Johnson is exceptionally gifted, and Never Again. Rishi Sunak's as sharp a guy as you're likely to meet, but as the Economist noted, rarely met a bad idea he didn't warm to. You're giving a weird halo effect to intelligence.
- tombert 1y agoTed Cruz said that Galileo was persecuted because he claimed that the earth isn’t flat, and used that as justification about denying climate change. This is a lie at best, but more likely just idiocy because he never paid attention in history classes. I do not agree that Ted Cruz is smarter than nearly all of us. I guess I just want politicians who can make the most basic logical inferences and do the most rudimentary reasoning, and importantly it would be great to have politicians who don’t think that they already know everything.
- petesergeant 1y ago> I do not agree that Ted Cruz is smarter than nearly all of us One of his Harvard Law Professors called him “off-the-charts brilliant”, and he won several national level debate challenges, so I suspect we’re working off such significantly different world views here as to preclude any reasonable discussion on this point.