re: #257 Obdicut

Intelligence really has nothing to do with it. You’re completely right about that. Accusations that poor people are so dumb they vote for the GOP remind me of accusations that blacks are dumb because they vote for the Democrats.

However, it is still troubling that people who do benefit highly from ‘income redistribution’ tend to be so opposed to it. Just as it is hypocritical when the governors of states rail against the stimulus and then parade around taking credit for the money brought to their state by the stimulus.

There are all kinds of things that would benefit me. I don’t agree with all of them in principle. The presumption that the poor are acting stupidly rather than voting out of some sort of principle, as a blanket statement, is blatantly prejudicial. I submit that if you substituted “gay” or any other class of person for “poor”, you’d say it was a hateful and bigoted statement.