It frustrates me that you can use this notion that everyone's just trying to do their own best or just trying to make it and that's somehow a metric by which to personally devalue and dismiss large swaths of the population. By any metric, you're not even looking to be convinced otherwise.
Unrelated, but I'm pretty sure that actual sheep don't actually care if a sheep's wool is black or not. That's a strictly human valuation.
What?
Where are you getting that from? My position is more in line with "For the same reason most people should not be practicing medicine, most people really shouldnt be practicing government"
That reason is "Most people are not trained to be [appropriate specialist with special training] (aka, doctors)"
The incorrect notion is to ascribe this as being a FAILURE. That somehow people are not living up to their potential or something. No-- I am pointing out that humans are not infinitely capable, and the neural platform we all have has fundamental limits. The need for specialization is a direct consequence of that very same limitation, and that same specialization, and the need for specialization as our civilization gets more and more complex, with more precise needs, results in Dunning Kruger being writ large.
It is not meant to demean, devalue, or ridicule anyone. It is a harsh critique of human civilization in the modern western world, as it bumps head-first into the limits of its constituent humans.
For a practical example about yourself-- (which again, this is NOT meant to demean, ridicule, or devalue you)-- Recently, the topic of gun control came up. You were unaware that the military uses otherwise consumer-grade hunting rifles in a military capacity, and just slaps a new name on it. You were "Quite sure" they did not do that, until it was demonstrated to you that they do in fact do that. That was specialist information, and minutia that was pertinent to the process of determining what guns need to be controlled, when and why, that you previously did not have, and likely would not have had, until it was pointed out to you. You are in no way stupid, nor should your insight be dismissed--- Only, that the lack of that knowledge predisposed you to simultaneously thinking you were correct about something that you were not, AND, that it predisposed you to being manipulated into supporting a ban for a gun that you would otherwise not have supported a ban of (a hunting rifle.)
There are unscrupulous people who specialize in exploiting this kind of situation for political purposes. You can find them in places like The Heritage Foundation. These are the people I refer to as "Judas Goats."
Rather than think I am excluding myself from the rest of humanity, rather, see it as a lament--- I too am afflicted. I am INCAPABLE of knowing everything I need to know, to properly and effectively utilize my ability to vote to guide the nation properly.