Seymour digging his own grave?

[Lilith7]

This simplified form of Right Wing Thinking (DUH) (by C_T_Russell) must show something besides just sheer bloody-mindedness.

Indeed, a sign of intelligence is the ability to fully understand what is being contemplated.

This inability to fully comprehend a given circumstance, I think, shows exactly the opposite is at play.

Or perhaps it is life-long damage caused by involuntary early childhood cult participation.

Or maybe some people are just not up to fully understanding subtleties, period, or are focused on lesser endeavours.

This would explain Seymour and Luxon at least, C_T_Russell is just exhibiting reactionary stabbing in the dark in unfortunate, perhaps well-meaning attempts to attain some form of post traumatic "enlightenment".

Seymour is chasing dogma, Luxon is after money and power.  Neither is thinking deeply about the people of the country as a whole they are supposed to be benefiting.

They probably aren't capable of such thinking so why are such incompetents in charge of running the country?

Poor shouldering of voting responsibility by the voting public perhaps plus manipulation of the system by the aforesaid "leaders".

Very well summed up.  
Or - to take a far more uncharitable view - perhaps they actually do comprehend. They just don't care about the effects on their fellow humans.

Sometimes, I tend to think its one & other times I think its the other...