The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(08-14-2020, 02:26 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-13-2020, 09:59 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Conservatives are right to defend free markets, but when they defend class privilege in an order with severe inequality that degrades human life, they enter the realm of indefensible absurdity. The Democrats at least stand for means (including high-quality education) that allow many to escape poverty.  Republicans want people competing for a shrinking number of jobs in sweatshops while their tax policies favor monopolistic, vertically-integrated behemoths more capable of concentrating wealth and economic power while discarding workers.

Who is the idiot (the mentally handicapped person in your case) who is being used to defend class privilege without knowing it these days? It's not me. Who is the political party that's been using him and taking advantage of him as a cheap source spread lies and spread their propaganda and ideological beliefs and so forth? It's not the Republican party.

Asperger's syndrome is not mental retardation.  OK, you use a word (idiot) that has had a formal meaning in the psychological lexicon, although the current term is "profoundly mentally impaired", typically for someone with an IQ under 30. That is the level of development characteristic of someone six years old once an adult. The words idiot (as in "that idiot cut me off"), to a lesser extent imbecile, and moron (as in "pop culture is designed so that morons can enjoy it" or "that moron expected to find Twin Cities broadcast channels in Duluth". 

A healthy economic order will reward people well for competence  in scarce abilities and skills (such as your ability to install and repair HVAC units) and might make most jobs (let us say retail sales clerking) easy enough that someone on the borderline of mental retardation can do them and will pay such people far less than someone with well-honed, specialized skills and talents.