Its funny you say that makes you dislike the article.
I agree with everything he wrote, and it makes me like this article a lot.
> Do you assume that he is unintelligent because he made policy choices with which you disagree?
This was spot-on to who I was 10-15 years ago in the bush years. I've actually come to the conclusion since then, before reading this, that I was very wrong about that (and a lot of other things) but this article is spot-on.
I know its a hard thing to realize and accept that you're living in a delusion, I'm right there with you on that.