Sarah Palin and the power of emotionalism

Palin is an intellectual lightweight who speaks with a slight hick accent. She is also a polarizing figure, despised and scorned by the leftists and feminists, but adored by conservative, Bible-believing Christians. You have to look at her ability to make a difference in endorsing Republican candidates in the primary contests and the starry-eyed adulation her supporters greet her in order to be amazed, if not dumbfounded, by the forces of emotionalism and ignorance on human behavior. Then you would understand why it's hard to be really and properly human: to use rationality in dealing with life's problems and not to resort to emotionalism as a default. But in order to be able to do that, you must have a respect for intellect and knowledge, something Palin and her supporters apparently don't have much in abundance.