I never realized that the 3rd Reich meant Germany!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upcazMabOKI

1. People’s perception of someone’s guilt or innocence is almost always proportional to their view of the heinousness of the crime, not the likelihood of actual guilt.

2. People who believe, where there’s smoke, there’s fire are easy prey for those who blow smoke.

First, you have to berlieve it’s a mistake. What’s wrong with making it too expensive for the Lower Orders to travel?

WRT your WQ. Generally, liberals do not experience the results of their folly. One reason is that everybody is conservative about that which he knows best and so a liberal isn’t going to screw up his own, immediate circumstances.
It’s always somebody else or…themselves at a future to be determined and currently not visible on the horizon.
Or,, as with energy prices. It’s Trump’s fault and/or it’s a good thing to reduce energy use. As a general rule, while they may experience higher energy prices, they’re in a position to be only inconvenienced. It’s those other people who have to pay. “A price we have to pay,”…”we” meaning somebody she never heard of and certainly not her.
Some time back, one commenter described a woman he knew who worked hard to diversify her neighborhood. The result was her kids were frequently beaten up and their bicycles stolen. So she had moved and was working on diversifying her new location. She did not make the connection, and likely could not because that would be racist.
So, for one reason or another, liberals do not have experience from which to learn.

A post at another blog linked a letter from a woman who had been dating a man who was fun to be with, successful (an electrical engineers), a motorcycle rider, Republican, Christian….and who she found sexually very attractive. But she defines herself as “a New York intellectual who dates more or less the same”…”My boyfriends tend to be writers and film makers interested in lefty politics and sustainable urban development. Lots of skinny jeans, the occasional fedora and dates that involve plenty of polite negotiating and triangulating a mutually convenient meeting point.”

Her self-image apparently requires that for the long term, she choose (if she chooses anybody) someone who fits the above model and can be considered an ‘intellectual’. Yet I will bet that the Harley guy, being an electrical engineer, has a higher IQ than most of her ‘intellectual’ friends.

“IQ is a measure of intellect, which is often described as the capacity to learn from books. Wisdom is a measure of the capacity to learn from experience, which I assert is totally absent from most liberals.”

I think there is more to it than lack of wisdom.

I think there is a great measure of arrogance tossed into this salad.

Highly educated liberals, especially, are adept at explaining away real world facts that contradict their world view. They can readily present arguments that appear to be logical, that make them appear to be very smart.
This ability places them above the fray, as an “intellect,” as someone who can see around corners, that place them above the Walmart crowd hoi-polloi.

There are many people who revel in being something – real or imagined – that allows them to reside above the fray. And if the “intellectual” class reside at a certain address, then by golly, best to belong to the smarty-pants class.

True, there are liberals who are simply clueless about everything and anything, who base their worldview on how they feel about this, that, he, her, whatever. They make no connection, NOR DESIRE TO make any connection between their real world travails and those in positions of authority who create the policies that complicate their lives.

I have liberal friends in both camps; the “pseudo-intellectual,” NY Times type liberals and the totally, non-thinking, clueless liberals.

All of them live within a “cone of silence,” but unlike the bumbling, inept members of the “CONTROL” spy agency (the good guys, from the TV show “Get Smart”), who would eventually have to raise the cone to communicate, the true-believer literally lives inside their cone and never leaves its confines.

By the way, the bumbling, inept spies of CONTROL, typically through an unbelievable series of accidents and coincidences, were always able to thwart the the bad guys of KAOS, and save the USA.

Important to note that The Internet is not identical with Social Media platforms…the latter are only one of the applications of the Internet, which also enables sites like this blog, Instapundit, and many more. Absent the Internet, we would be *totally* at the mercy of the media gatekeepers, both print and tv media and any online closed systems that they might have developed.