How low has academia sunk where the so-called brightest amongst them can be so willfully obtuse, intellectually dishonest, ignorant, and an asshat all at the same time.

We are surrounded by stupidity. It's everywhere. It pervades Hollywood, New York, Florida and it's entrenched in the D.C. quagmire. Found in every State in the Republic, stupid is both encouraged and rewarded. Stupid flourishes throughout the media and festers in the political swamp. Speaking stupid is fostered by self-important silver-spoons and proliferates among those blue check morons on the social chatterboxes. 

Twitter's undocumented mission statement:

“If you’ve read op-eds about free speech in America, or listened to talking heads on the news, you’ve almost certainly encountered empty, misleading, or simply false tropes about the First Amendment,” argues Los Angeles litigator Ken White in an Atlantic essay. “Those tired tropes are barriers to serious discussions about free speech.” Among verbal gestures that help very little or not at all when you’re trying to establish whether particular speech is protected under current First Amendment law:

From American Enterprise Institute | Mark J. Perry:

A couple of examples below of asking the wrong question.

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Fund the HSA deductible, as Indiana and Whole Foods do, and put real prices on everything

(Market Watch | Sean Masaki Flynn) — As the Democratic presidential candidates argue about “Medicare for All” versus a “public option,” two simple policy changes could slash U.S. health-care costs by 75% while increasing access and improving the quality of care.