Jonathan Gruber is a very wealthy man. He got wealthy while holding the firm opinion that you and I are idiots. In fact, he thinks we’re such numbskulls that he needs to lie to us about what he’s doing, or else in our dim-bulb half-wittedness, we just might not be able to see its transcendent brilliance.
Gruber made no bones about all this either. Apparently there is recording after recording of this guy telling anyone who’ll listen what morons we American voters are.
Well, we did elect to the Presidency the guy who hired the guy who thinks we’re idiots.
Then, we taxpayers paid the Gruber guy to act on his understanding that we Americans are big dummies. Millions and millions of dollars we paid this smart man.
Then we re-elected the guy who hired the guy who told us we’re all a bunch of drooling half-wits, and that we need the brainy ones like him to make our decisions for us.
Maybe we are stupid.
— xPraetorius
The Praetorian Writers' Group 
In his world “stupid” is also a synonym for not using sociopathic behaviours to screw your fellow man.
Well said, uL! Someone with that state of mind simply knows that he knows all that he needs to know, in order to justify vast, sweeping acts that upend the lives, careers and futures of millions of people. And too bad if you’re one of those people.
He’s wrong, but he knows it nonetheless; just as he knows the sun will rise in the morning.
I remember when I knew everything. I was about 12- or 13-years old. At that point I thought that others who didn’t see or understand or agree with what I found to be perfectly obvious were just completely stupid. I outgrew it.
There’s certainly nothing wrong with holding firm opinions and beliefs, but there is something very wrong with pretending that there are no other possible opinions, or that we hold all truth, and know all that we need to know.
These states-of-mind — there are no other possible opinions, and we know all we need to know — are widespread on the American political left, as they were in my 13-year old self.
I needed to seek other perspectives aggressively in order to outgrow all that. I still experience the temptation to “know” something and to consider that I have enough information, even on some complex topics.
I’m grateful to you for giving me an object lesson in “other possibilities” in, for example, Syria, where I had an “Assad and no-Assad” perspective. It was a good object lesson.
I came up with an expression that I’ve been trying to wordsmith into something pithy and blog-worthy. The expression goes something like this. “Education has nothing to do with intelligence. There are some highly educated people who were really good at learning really stupid things.”
Best,
— x