Can't speak for political judgments, but have read a bit of economics to gauge how the entire edifice of an academic subject, centred on choices, pretending to be science, stands on an all-important 'ceteris paribus' (all things being equal/constant) condition: which is, that people are rational.

What if there are more powerful engines in the human brain that wholly overshadow our inclination towards rationality? And I mean from a macro decision-making level, that determines lives of billions, or where we are headed as a collective.