Ben Carson doesn’t just profess beilef in the ‘ordinary’ Far Right spectrum of philosophy. He doesn’t even just share the somewhat off-nominal beliefs of his Seventh Day Adventist brethren who describe themselves as ”God’s ‘peculiar people’”. No, Ben Carson consistantly professes belief in the kind of high weirdness that Robert Anton Wilson would have difficulty saying with a straight face, including that the Egyptian pyramids were built by the Joseph of Canaan to store grain, evolution is a Satanic plot and that the Big Bang hypothesis is a “fairy tale”, and ”poverty is a state of mind”. People do keep repeating, “but he’s a brain surgeon” as if his technical expertise in that area demonstrates mental competency and temperment to hold the office of the President, but pretty much everything else that has come out of his mouth since announcing his candidacy has demonstrated the precise opposite. I wouldn’t be comfortable giving Ben Carson a Red Ryder BB gun, much less the nuclear launch codes.
But on the plus side, he does know where is luggage is now. So…there is that.
Stranger