Defining Intelligence 147 had boundary issues she had to deal with. We have boundary issues right now with Mexico now. This Palin supporter is also incoherent but incoherent in a differ- ent way. He doesn’t know much, and he knows he doesn’t know much. But he has beliefs and he believes in his beliefs. He has beliefs about socialism (that it is bad, and that President Obama thinks it is good) that are based on no real knowledge. He has beliefs about foreign policy and what it means to have foreign policy experience that are based on nonsense. And he has made up some beliefs about “boundaries.” What does this tell us? It tells us that at some point, maybe not now because he is too set in his own beliefs, someone could have taught him about socialism or “boundaries” or what it means to have foreign policy experience. But it should be clear that this is exactly the kind of education that we have been trying to do in our schools forever. You can talk about socialism in school, but that doesn’t mean that your average person learns much from what is said there. There is a wonderful movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off that reveals a great deal about education. I often use a clip from that movie, when I give speeches on education or training, wherein the teacher drones on about the Smoot Hawley tariff and George Bush’s view of Reagan’s voodoo economics (as stated in the 1980 primaries) while the students doze off. At a different point in the same movie, the lead character blows off a European history test, saying: It’s on European socialism. I mean, really! What’s the point? I’m not European . .. I don’t plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they’re socialists? They could be fascist anarchists. ... It still wouldn’t change the fact that I don’t own a car! They do teach about socialism in school, but no one is listening. If we can’t produce reasonably intelligent voters in our schools, then we aren’t doing much. Here is another Columbus Palin fan: I