David Brooks says: trust your gut

NYT’s Brooks writes:

“We voters — all of us — make emotional, intuitive decisions about who we prefer, and then come up with post-hoc rationalizations to explain the choices that were already made beneath conscious awareness.”

Good point. We should try to reverse this process when making voting decisions, beginning with questions rather than answers, and choose the people who represent the people’s interests, right?

“My own intuition is that this unconscious cognition is pretty effective. People are skilled at judging character.” (…especially when judging a group of people whose occupational success depends on their ability to deceive.)

Well, never mind, then.

Here’s the link.