Well I can understand it more in the case of an atheist. I got overly frustrated w my friend because somewhere between his Southern Baptist & claimed Republican affiliations he ought to know better.
Now another single man I had in mind is a Wiccan. He’s not, interestingly enough, a self-described liberal. He makes much of his paganism, though. He wants one thing only from the government: uninterrupted benefits. He’s an implicit believer in reincarnation, which you’d think wd give him a stake in the future. I guess since he doesn’t claim to know where or in what form he’ll be back, he doesn’t care if the US is broke by then, or even exists. (I’ve challenged his reincarnation views, incidentally; it just makes him cranky. According to him, all Christians are hypocrites, & that is the end of the discussion.]
I should have said, ‘more broke than we already are’. But in my friend’s eyes the US won’t be truly broke until his checks stop coming, so in his eyes it hasn’t happened yet.
And he's certain that he's smarter than you are. He just doesn't have to prove it.
Ugh.