number of instances where the idiotic policies are the direct result of a deep, deep, deep stupidity.

What sort of mental processes lead people to come up with shit like this? Oh that's right, flawed ones.

This doesn't even help anyone anywhere yet it will persist because they think it should work and because they want it to work. Evidence to the contrary doesn't matter; if they think it enough times it becomes true in their own minds.

It's too much; people this stupid should be institutionalized for their own good to say nothing of the good of the country.