| A view from abroad, but using American political vocabulary. |
Today I am in New York on my publicity tour for Watermelons and as I sat at breakfast this morning, chomping on an Ess-a-bagel and reading Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics I found myself wondering -- not for the first time -- why it is that liberal-lefties manage to be so utterly wrong about everything.
"Because they're stupid," said a libertarian friend of mine.
"Oh come on, not all of them surely? A bit misguided, maybe but..." I protested.
"No really they're stupid because they're not interested in facts. They just want to construct their pretty little narrative about the world, regardless of whether or not it has any bearing on reality. And then they want to dump it on us. And ruin our lives. So not just stupid but evil too." |