Quote Originally Posted by iamapatient
Socialists are all idiots...
I don't think you could argue socialists are any more idiotic than the hardcore laissez-faire types. I think the difference is that the former are actually interested in an economically egalitarian land, while the latters' interest lies primarily in seeing just how little they can pay their Third World workers, and just how many tax breaks or corporate welfare they can squeeze out of the government.

Anyway, I remember reading something in "Stranger in a Strange Land" about how politicians reflect the populace and therefore just as self-serving and custom-bound.
overgrowthegovt Reviewed by overgrowthegovt on . Why the majority of politicians are jokes I've been thinking about this lately...the overwhelmingly vast majority of the leaders we elect are idiotic, pompous stooges, mindlessly obedient to whatever social norms or fucked-up status quos happen to be in place, incapable of innovative thought or political discourse. I think true intellectuals or thinkers intimidate the public. Noam Chomsky should be the president of the United States, but he'd never get elected, because he has a mind that's actually capable of questioning the moronic Rating: 5