"..........But But how do you know what to think?"
Outside of the odd bit (I have come to think that Friedman sounds like a visitor from the other side of the galaxy when compared to the rest of the lib screamers at the Slime), my only use since.......oh, maybe 1970......has been as a perfect negative barometer: They claim something is certain to happen, I plan for exactly the opposite.
Mostly, I've come to consider them a waste of trash timber byproducts AND time and ignore them.
IMHO, I think pretty well all by myself, thank you. ;-)