I've worked with peers who could engineer a solution to just about any technical problem handed to them...and they still believe communism will work and vote blue no matter who.
Sowell suggests that these kinds of people are attracted to systems with centralized control, like communism, because they imagine it would give them more power. If they can engineer a solution to any problem, arrogance would tell them that they could also "solve" societal issues in a childish "if I were king" way.
I've worked with peers who could engineer a solution to just about any technical problem handed to them...and they still believe communism will work and vote blue no matter who.
Sowell suggests that these kinds of people are attracted to systems with centralized control, like communism, because they imagine it would give them more power. If they can engineer a solution to any problem, arrogance would tell them that they could also "solve" societal issues in a childish "if I were king" way.