"Smart" Doesn't Equal Right

The worst thing about dealing with someone who is clearly intelligent and even well-informed is that some of them tend to think that their knowledge automatically makes their judgement superior -- "[They're] smart, so [they're] right."

With a largely left wing intelligencia that regularly shows sympathy to authoritarianism in all its guises and scorn upon the free-wheeling individualism of America it's a hard case to prove that knowledge and wit necessarily means an honest or insightful view of things.