Nowadays, understanding what is going on is a more revolutionary task than protests that change nothing, erroneous criticisms or unreasonable expectations. Politics cannot continue being what Groucho Marx asserted: the art of making false diagnoses and then applying the wrong remedies. A new political Enlightenment should begin by dismantling faulty analyses, exposing those who promise things they cannot provide, protecting ourselves both from those who believe everything is obvious and those who know nothing. Knowledge, reflection, strategic orientation and judgment have never been more liberating.