Posted on 11/21/2010 7:31:12 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Anal’cysts think that “economic” interests are the only issues that drive people. They never consider the possibility that “Freedom” may be a factor. :-)
Lueders says he asked Franklin why "the public seemed to vote against its own interests and stated desires, for instance by electing candidates who'll drive up the deficit with fiscally reckless giveaways to the rich."
Underlying this is a thoroughly internalized set of sophomoric assumptions - voters are only significant as members of social classes and not as individuals, only vote class interests (if they're to be regarded as "smart") and that those class interests are exclusively economic. Marx Lite. And even old Karl must be dropping tears of frustration into the Lake of Fire.
"Fiscally reckless giveaways to the rich" isn't even that, it's mindless cant. If tossing gold coins to the statue of John D. Rockefeller would result in them being used to stimulate economic activity for the masses then voting for it would be in the latter's economic class interest. These guys can't even stick within their own silly theories.
“Whether or not that’s true, they still aren’t eligible to win the Big 10”
No, they’re not. Of course, they could beat any team in the Big 10, and they are the best college team in the country, but what is that when the subject is winning the Big 10?
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