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“Methinks the damage has been done.”

The damage control was about as good as it could be at that point. The damage could have been worse. They could have gone ahead with their plans and been picketed and had more money pledges withdrawn. It would have been better never to have done this to begin with. Academics live in a special hothouse environment isolated from the deplorables’ universe, so they don’t know how their actions might be perceived in a non-academic world.

I was talking to a professor in the gym. He taught how to be an entrepreneur. He had never started or run a company. He had never had a job outside the university. But he considered his course an essential for students who wanted to start their own company. Having started three companies and run several large departments in multi-nationals, it was all I could do not to laugh. His naiveté was astonishing.

They are the smartest people in every room. Or so they think.

Liberal arrogance in this respect is astonishing. We went through eight years of a President who should never have been able to get elected on his affinity with racist, terrorist, and other anti-American elements, but just as bad, had no experience at anything outside politics and community organizing. Never held a real job in his life.

It is one of the fundamental reasons liberals largely love socialism and other centrally planned elements, and despise capitalism and market economies.

Liberals refuse to believe in (never mind understand) the power of the “invisible hand” of capitalism by which prices are set and finite resources are allocated to get products to where people want them.

They are profoundly appalled by the concept that millions of ordinary, and to them, uneducated people out there voting with their hard-earned dollars are a better judge of what products should be produced, and where they should be sent (the ‘invisible hand’) instead of filling a room with the smartest people in the world (them) to manually decide these things.