Crossing the Schoolyard

I've been thinking about this example, which appears to me to apply to many situations- from politics straight through certain situations certain actual school aged children find themselves in.

You can know the unpopular kid is right, but never get up the nerve to go sit over there with him. In politics, as in all the other areas of life, the accusation of weirdness, insanity, or whatever, serve an unsavory sort of inertia, lasting long past the realizaton the outcast was right. People are right now happily throwing dirt on the entire field of economics, glad to bury all of it, rather than bother acquainting themselves with the facts.

I think people will pay a high premium to stick with the popular kids and they probably won't bail even if they know the cool kids are wrong. No, they'll wait until Mr. Popularity goes and burns the house down. Then they'll be running blindly from a fire, probably on fire themselves.