Politicians preach conformity and a preference for being with the status quo over being right. They say people see solitary wisdom as a kind of folly, that it's better to be deluded with the crowd rather than clear-seeing alone, that we have to live with other people and they are mainly ignorant, that ignorance comprises the greatest wisdom, or at least the pretense of it. The truly wise prefer the opposite: better sane with the rest of the sane, wise with the rest of the wise than insane alone, a fool by ourselves.