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The same is true of most of these politicians - very few went to average unis (or no uni at all). Truss was Oxbridge as well, wasn’t she, as was Braverman?
I wonder if this is evidence of one of the things I have read that troubles me most - the cleverer people are, the more they can be biased on things as they have the intelligence to find arguments to support their position. Hence these (academically intelligent) people being zealots….
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It did cross my mind that some of them might have got in to these places due to donations from rich family but looking at Raab's family history, I suspect he must have done it on merit alone.
I wonder if this is evidence of one of the things I have read that troubles me most - the cleverer people are, the more they can be biased on things as they have the intelligence to find arguments to support their position. Hence these (academically intelligent) people being zealots….
I think there might be some truth to this but in reality I just think that intelligence is a really complicated thing. There are loads of different types of intelligence and its rare for somebody to be well endowed with all of the different types. In Raab's case, i suspect we think he's dim because he's light on one or two of these.
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the cleverer people are, the more they can be biased on things as they have the intelligence to find arguments to support their position
The other possibility of course is that running a country (which means of necessity running an economy that can support the country before you even start to think about social changes) in a world that is massively interconnected, dependent on supranational corporations and in the short to medium term can only keep functioning by burning fuel that will kill it looks easy when it's not you doing it, and is pretty much impossible when it is.
That's not to excuse cunts making decisions to benefit their cronies because that's a whole other thing, but government is basically making what based on what information you have is the least worst decision and being called a cunt for doing it by people who have even less idea of the problems than you do.
Stonehedge
brokenbetty
Raab won the Clive Parry Prize for International Law after finishing top of the class for his International Law Masters at Cambridge. He's not academically thick.
In my distant memory I'm sure I read that he once represented Tony Blair when he was a solicitor.