Intellectual deficiency is best signified by the belief that a political opponent cannot generate good ideas and lacks reason, common sense or morality. But people are seldom purely evil or purely good. While some lean closer toward one of these extremes, most of us vacillate somewhere between such neatly designed poles in the messiness of life.
A thinking person is one whose analysis concerning the position of their political opponents recognizes and supports whenever legislative initiatives are introduced that enhance and expand the common good. Sophomoric thinkers, lacking the necessary faculties to engage in a posteriori analytical skill, tend to mask their insufficiency of rational thought through boisterous rhetoric, narcissist pronouncements and a conspiratory worldview. Bullying and name-calling trump thoughtful intellectual engagement.
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