Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
The punishment for being a Koch is having to associate with other Koches. :-#
Hear, hear. Though, oddly enough, one of the Koches is gay and apparently a thoroughly decent person -- who sadly is obliged to deal with the others, who despise him for his sexual orientation. As I said, they're a particularly odd family.
You should watch some of the videos by Ron Reagan. I think that like me you will have more respect for his father afterwards.
I'm not entirely sure that would help. You see, the elder Reagan was also governor of my native state, and rather a disaster at that, IMO.
Of all the things you listed, not reading twitter etc seems to be your biggest lack. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on there.
I do dip into Twitter, very selectively. See, for example, the many tweets enshrined in my .signature blocks: http://linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/sigs-rickmoen.html But, to reiterate, my problem is not with Twitter; my problem is with people getting their worldview from Twitter. Tweets are about the world's worst substitute for any of the other ways of understanding national and world affairs.
I expect that more than a few Ivy League graduates vote for Trump.
[citation needed] https://xkcd.com/285/
Being well educated doesn't necessarily prevent people from being horrible bigots.
Utanning kan ikke unngå å bli uklokt, men i det minste noen av oss er flerkulturelle. (Education cannot prevent being unwise, but at least some of us are multicultural.) FWIW, polls suggest that Trump's current electorate are overwhelmingly poorly educated.
The reason that seasteading etc have never taken off is that even the anti-tax extremists know that a country run by people like themselves would be a horrible place to live.
More's the pity. I'd like to declare some artificial island Galt's Gulch, drop the lot of them off, and let them work things out.