It's tempting to define moron as the opposite of genius or domain expert. As very few people are geniuses or domain experts for any chosen domain, it may sometimes appear that everyone is a moron.<p>The reality is that the observer is just as limited as the 'fools' he is observing. He just doesn't realise that, or perhaps, cannot accept it.<p>It's especially hard for people to accept that when they feel their position and status in life depends on the grandiloquence and success of their visions, vs, say, high quality widgets made. As beltway bureaucrats rarely produce tangible things except laws, they are very susceptible to thinking that because they have a job in a position of power, they must ipso-facto be qualified to wield that power, and as they are rarely domain experts in anything technical or specific, that qualification must be their generally superior intellect.<p>It's not just America that has this problem. Recent events in the EU show the problem there may be dramatically worse.