Me, I'm not seeing a lack of cognitive ability so much.

There are none so blind, I guess, and it's fear driving the blindness in cases like your woman above, I expect.

In others still, I suspect a big serving of GroupThink and xenophobia heaped over poor education.

I think the reason we have law in part is that there are various kinds of incompetencies and broken-nesses manifested in the population.

Political theory? I don't know...realising there's a range of ability, maturity, understanding and so on ought obviously to be accomodated, but I don't see it abating the value of progressive ideals generally.

I do see that anarchism and socialism have problems in their unrevised forms.