Sub-Rational

Being sub-rational is all about not really thinking things through.

For instance, I hear people saying that they want to shrink the size of government.  But then, they blindly support politicians running for office to run against the politicians that are already in office.  This is truly a matter of cognitive dissonance for me...

I mean, on the one hand, wanting government to shrink is the goal, but on the other hand wanting someone else to take care of the problem for you seems very counter-intuitive.

How does swapping out politicians shrink the size of government?

How does continuing to insist that elected officials (ostensibly, "the government") solve your problem for you present any slightest shade of difference between the complaint and the complete lack of any solution?

And then there's the problem of the government shrink advocate apparently thinking that "the government" is only the Congress and the President, ie- only those we elect.

In case none of these sub-rational folks haven't noticed, "the government" is millions of employees.  It's beyond unrealistic to expect that a change of elected representatives can shrink that leviathan when all demonstrable history has shown us that governments will always grow and accrue more and more power over their populations.

It's nearly an axiom, if you bother to take a look at that phenomenon.

But the sub-rational among us seem to think that history doesn't matter, that the passions they are gluttonously feeding themselves on lately...  that it all makes some sort of perfect sense.