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.
I am often both appalled and amazed at how stupidly many smart people act.
No detectable common sense at all :-/