Does it sometimes dumfound you that so many people can be stupid,

[ancianita]

79. What hurts us more is that intelligent people exploit them for power and profit. That's the worst.

I feel you, though. When I feel like you, I remember one more thing.

There's more to evil than stupidity. There is stealth.

"Intelligent" evil have used stealth and opportunity to shove even the well meaning stupids toward directions we have now found ourselves in.

The evil of them all is how they hide from the rest of us, because they know what they do.

Take the Bush "intelligent" legal team, prepped by "intelligent" John Roberts, DC corporate lawyer at the time, and "intelligent" justices of SCOTUS who helped GW win in 2000. Remember that, too.

Right now we're not just at war with the stupid and gullible. We're in lawyer wars.

Convert your dumbfoundedness to focused vigilance, because it's not enough to find out law exploiters, or monitor them, or punish their clients. We have to ruin them all, legally and economically. It's nothing personal, just the business of democracy.