Smart people or smart policies, what about smart people with smart policies? What about smart followers with smart policies? How do we know the difference?
There is only and maybe at least one very important thing missing. Smart Argument. America is an ongoing argument. I like smart people that can have a smart argument over smart policies. I wish I was good at all three. I’d like to get better in these areas. But I can still be atracted to the smart or the wise or the courageous if not oppositional types in our world. That free speech and free listening is recognized as one of our core rights. I recognize hate speech as free speech but honestly dumb speech as well. And I’m quick to classify hate speech to the trash, I quickly turn it off. But what I think one must look for and support is smart speech, wise speech, courageous speech with well thought out and understood approaches to living in complex and tough times.
I would enjoy arguments along those lines. Not arguments to see which one can gotcha the other, or destroy or crush, but those who argue to bring out the best in others and make their very arguments a pathway to empowerment as well as the smart policies they advocate. Smart Arguments, I’d vote for that.