Is there any group of significant size that claims to be 'socially liberal and fiscally conservative' that is not, in fact, a faceplate for 'fiscally conservative fucktards?' Whether the SL-FC people involved KNOW they're acting is such is irrelevant.
It's like intelligent design. There are a small handful of philosophers that ask intelligent questions about prime-mover origins who are associated with intelligent design. This group of intellectuals forms the utterly irrelevant core of a huge mass of stupidity. They are a single-digit group of intellectuals whose intellectual contributions have been dwarfed by the fact that they loaned a halo of respectability to a massive pile of vitriolic ignorance.
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Date: 2011-06-03 03:51 am (UTC)It's like intelligent design. There are a small handful of philosophers that ask intelligent questions about prime-mover origins who are associated with intelligent design. This group of intellectuals forms the utterly irrelevant core of a huge mass of stupidity. They are a single-digit group of intellectuals whose intellectual contributions have been dwarfed by the fact that they loaned a halo of respectability to a massive pile of vitriolic ignorance.