Do You Know What Ben Carson Believes? Holy Mackerel.
How is it possible to be a brilliant neurosurgeon and a thoroughgoing crackpot at the same time? I honestly don’t have a clue, but almost everything that comes out of Ben Carson’s mouth should alarm the living hell out of every American, especially now that he’s the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2016.
If someone can explain how any of this is possible, I’d deeply appreciate it.
It strikes me that one of two things is likely in play here…
Either… Carson is sincere and irrational – honestly ascribing a personal reality to the literal interpretation of scripture, as well as being possessed of enough of a scientific mind to get through medical school (though his credentials and quality as a surgeon are under some suspicion, I understand).
Or… Carson is cynically manipulating the GOP base and electorate through parroting many of the most extreme and irrational positions.
I find there are generally three qualities present in a good public servant – integrity, intellect and information (of the accurate variety). Equally, I find bad public servants nearly always possess only two of these three. These latter are either ignorant, ignoble, or idiots – or some combination.
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Like him or not Ben Carson has caused us to ask some tough questions like “Have we been overestimating the intelligence of Brain Surgeons?”.