In most public debate on any matter whatever if one attends one sees evidence of Ignorance - individuals making judgements while not in possession of available knowledge, Stupidity - a relative inability to draw reasonable conclusions from such knowledge as is to hand and Laziness - a failure to exert effort to comprehend or affect the situation. Look, listen and reflect and you will see this at every turn in the pronouncements of many in the public eye. There was a time when such persons would not have been afforded a hearing. The great transformation may have been triggered by the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 as President of the USA. He embodied all three failings in a high degree and his situation was starkly apparent in the inevitable comparison with his predecessor Jimmy Carter who showed then and has confirmed since that he is knowledgeable, smart and diligent. The three opposites of Reagan's defining features.
We need to stop being squeamish and call such people out. We cannot allow this unholy trinity of properties to blight our future. Listen, Look, Reflect and above all Act!
