POINT OF ORDER
TIM COHEN: Homo sapiens, it seems, are not that wise
'Did people ever really think the failed healthcare vote in the US would happen? And it’s happening all over the world, including in SA'
Why are people so ignorant? Is there a way to stop people from being stupid? If so, how? I couldn’t help thinking these terrible thoughts when I read this weekend about US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s failure to scrap Obamacare — the party and Trump’s most fervent electoral promise. What a fiasco. Someone immediately tweeted, "If Trump voters are upset by the Obamacare debacle, there is a good chance they are going to be even more disappointed when Mexico doesn’t pay for that wall." Did people ever really think that would happen? They must have. But it seems so obviously unlikely, why did voters fall for it like so many lemmings? And it’s happening all over the world, including in SA. Our government now ritually makes promises it not only doesn’t keep, but has no intention of keeping. How can you promise voters to be against corruption and then look the other way when the acting head of Eskom gives contracts worth more than R1bn to a company in which his 26-year...
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