Quiz, philosophy

I just got back from my political thought and action class. We took a quiz on Thomas Jefferson. As someone who is interested in political philosophy, especially Thomas Jefferson's political philosophy, I had no problem with the quiz. It also got me thinking. A lot of the philosophies that have come into existence since the enlightenment and the American revolution, I think for the most part, have been unfortunate. For exampke, Keynesian economics. It was a flawed method of thinking as it came out of a flawed understanding of the Great Depression. And it went on to create the "middle ground" between capitalism and socialism, which is unstable, and which lead directly to this current economic crisis. And many people become so emotionally invested in toxic ideas like Keynesian economics, that there is no possible way to reason with them. Supporters of the New Deal don't want to hear about the fact that the New Deal never created an economic boom. It did not reverse the negative economic growth. Yet, the ideological and emotional love of the New Deal in many people makes it difficulut to talk about without people getting mad. Before the Great Depression, people believed in the free market. They believed in the invisible hand. Now, its not just that they don't believe in the invisible hand of the free market, they hate the idea of the invisible hand. They don't think we reason from an objective point of view, they think with emotion.