MARCH 6, 2019
Democrats Need Stupid Voters
By
John Leonard
Remember Jonathan Gruber, the
chief architect of ObamaCare?
The economics professor from MIT
had bragged the law was deliberately written in tortured and confusing language in order to fool the American voter and famously said, “lack of transparency was a huge political advantage.” Gruber also sneered that the overall strategy to have the bill passed into law “depended on the stupidity of the American voter.”
How could Gruber be confident that enough voters would be so stupid as to support Democratic efforts to take control of our healthcare? Well, for one thing, he’s not only a Democrat, but part of their aristocracy. Even more importantly, Gruber is an academic elitist. In other words, making sure people remain stupid about basic economics has been the primary focus of his life’s work. But he’s hardly alone.
How bad is it? Try reading Howard Zinn’s warped
“alternative” version of history sometime. Or better yet, read
The End of Biblical Studies -- written by, you guessed it, an atheist/professor of religious studies (who does not appreciate my work, if his threats to
sue me for libel were meant to be taken seriously.)
Unfortunately, these are only two examples of many. Our education system has been completely overrun with dogmatic liberals, from kindergarten through college. The youth of today are being thoroughly indoctrinated into liberal groupthink and encouraged to become obnoxious activists on
issues like climate change, demanding drastic action without debate or discussion.
What else might explain the popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? How could anyone believe that socialism might succeed in the United States when it has failed miserably everywhere it’s ever been tried? Socialism offers a promise of utopia via a fair and equitable redistribution of wealth, but the reality is a totalitarian government, equally distributed misery, and bread lines. The only people happy with a socialist government belong to the ruling class.
Speaking of bread lines, Bernie Sanders once went on the record to say that
bread lines are good. Only a complete idiot or truly evil person would argue that lining up for food is good, because food lines mean that food is scarce, not plentiful. When a line forms to purchase any commodity or product, it means that demand is great and believed to exceed supply. That’s usually taught in the introduction to economics.
Any argument advocating socialism can be easily defeated using a single word: Venezuela. Ironically, as Bernie was defending bread lines in the video at the link above, he said the alternative to socialism (and bread lines) was no food. Bernie said that without socialism, the rich would continue to eat and the poor would starve. But that's exactly what has happened in socialist Venezuela.
Maduro stuffed his face on national television, while the Venezuelans were losing
twenty-four pounds on average. Ninety percent of the country lives in poverty, but Maria Gabriela Chavez (the daughter of Hugo Chavez) lives in a palace and has a
net worth of $4.2 billion dollars.
Now how’s that for wealth redistribution? Sound fair to you?