Yeah politics is crazy. It makes smart people seem stupid. When you're a politician, I think you just have to talk in a way that is imprecise and which appeal

Yeah politics is crazy. It makes smart people seem stupid. When you're a politician, I think you just have to talk in a way that is imprecise and which appeals to base instincts, which makes you seem stupid. But that is what works. Many politicians are brilliant polymaths and they all seem to have converged on the same behavior. I guess if you were to design a computer to be a politician, it would end up in the same spot. Its job would be to appeal to people of different backgrounds, who are irrational in different ways. (And don't think that highly educated people in Silicon Valley aren't irrational in their own way.)