By Yale M. Zussman:
When asked to identify the single greatest strategic threat to America, participants in the recent Democratic debate offered China, Russia, Iran, climate change, even Donald Trump, but they were all wrong. The greatest threat to America’s future is the rapid proliferation of “magical thinking” among the populace and electorate.
Magical thinking is adherence to ideas that are deeply held despite the absence of any evidence that they are correct or in the face of evidence that they are wrong. It ignores basic concepts, like cause and effect, and replaces logic with emotion. For those engaged in magical thinking, beliefs always trump facts.
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