I don’t understand why I’m like this. I have a friend (actually several but let’s focus on this one) who is just plain stupid. Well, maybe he’s not stupid in the strictest sense, but he’s a very very very poor example of what a citizen should be. He disagrees with me politically which is part of the problem, maybe most of it, but he also does very little to understand problems of the world and so sticks to a point of view that keeps blinders to reality.