[eahman02]

Think of it the other way: for some people, the public has voted very stupidly for a long time, and now they are starting to get straight.

[not_kurt_godel]

And yet those people are people whose core beliefs - or at least, the manifestation of those beliefs into policy - are, for the most part, largely objectively wrong.

[dsfyu404ed]

Or politicians are starting to deliver on their stupid promises.