The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Libertarian ideology at work


No one was really surprised when someone famously called out during the Republican primaries, when a would-be candidate was asked what poor people without health insurance were to do, “Let them die!” and the audience laughed heartily, not nervously, not in shock, and not in embarrassment.

It is not as though conservatives have been hiding what they are and what they want from America, you know.

And the poor whites among their base stay loyal.

Well, as the Republicans themselves are among the first and most frequent to point out, those people are exceptionally poor in large part because they are exceptionally stupid.

Stupidity, they point out, does not pay well, and even has its own special costs.

When you’re right, you’re right.

One does have to recall, from time to time, that intelligence is roughly normally distributed and half the population is even stupider than the average fellow.

A fair number are a lot stupider.

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