Can anyone guess who this is about
He has a blind spot, though: an obsessive belief that he knows best: better than an opposition he appears to consider cynical, corrupt, or stupid.
Any belief in your infallibility is the best way to be fallible, unless you are God himself. One of the best ways to find your mistakes is to listen to critics, and subject both their criticisms and your own ideas to the best test methods you know about or can find out about. There isn't enough time to test everything, which is one good reason to listen to others, and apply whatever tests are possible.
OTOH if you don't do whatever you can do, you earn your problems. Analysis paralysis is not just a problem for investors.
One hundred and thirty-five years ago Tocqueville gravely warned that unless individual citizens were regularly involved in the action of governing themselves, self-government would pass from the scene.
Yeah
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
Good question:
What makes our leaders think we are immune from the destructive forces of a shaky financial foundation?
A really long one:
Higher taxes, more regulations, more social welfare programs, watered -down education were promised elixirs of the problem...check anywhere in the world where they have been implemented and you will see amazing gulfs between the haves and the have-nots.