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The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical e… - Thomas Sowell
" "The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied.
They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that fail to give them that.
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About Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and political commentator. He taught economics at Cornell University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and since 1980 at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is currently Senior Fellow.
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