The advantage of believing implicitly in people in positions of power and authority such as the president, or thinking that the president's appointees know more about any given subject than some of the people contributing to this thread, is that it saves one the effort of thinking. If one hears of someone else objecting to something the administration does, all one need do to participate in the disuccion is to insult the person making the objection. No effort involved.

The disadvantage, of course, is that when one finds oneself on the wrong side of the barbed wire, one can't say that they hadn't been warned.

A lot of people learned that unpleasant lesson sixty-some-odd years ago, but very few lived long enough to profit by the lesson.

Berserker