But what possible purpose can this serve, this political equivalent of being Amish? They withdraw from a world of facts to a world of their own imagining, and it used to be that we put people like that in rubber rooms so they didn’t hurt themselves, instead of breathlessly watching their progress via tabloid headlines.
When you promote a culture of ignorance, and pretend that whole professions are instantly available to a non-licensed plumber, you are promoting, what? A society in which no one takes pride in a job well done?
