Your decisons are based on emotion. Not reason.

Not other people’s decisions. Your decisions.

Your inablility to understand this is why:

1. You are an idiot.

2. Natural selection says you should be dead.

Thomas Sowell is a very smart man. And every idea he presents in these three paragraphs is wrong. Every question he asks can be answered with almost no brain activity needed. I’ll explain why.

Those of us who like to believe that human beings are rational can sometimes have a hard time trying to explain what is going on in politics. It is still a puzzle to me how millions of patriotic Americans could have voted in 2008 for a man who for 20 years — TWENTY YEARS — was a follower of a preacher who poured out his hatred for America in the most gross gutter terms.

Today’s big puzzle is how so many otherwise rational people have become enamored of Donald Trump, projecting onto him virtues and principles that he clearly does not have, and ignoring gross defects that are all too blatant.

There was a time when someone who publicly mocked a handicapped man would have told us all we needed to know about his character, and his political fling would have been over. But that was before we became a society where common decency is optional.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/01/22/do-emotions-trump-facts-n2108178/page/full