The Party Of Smart

You know what I mean. You know the people who think that they're so smart that they leave wet, squishy smartprints in the carpet when they walk? The ones who never miss a chance to tell you that George W. Bush and Sarah Palin are so not smart enough to be one of them? Yeah, them.

So Gallup asks a question. Just off the top of your head, do you have a positive or negative image of "socialism"? Guess who likes it?

For extra credit, can anyone please tell the class what these folks are missing? Anyone? How about you, TJIC?

The issue, I imagine, is that big intrusive government is a dandy thing – it just “needs to be done right”.

See also: “communism is a great idea, it’s just never been tried”.

See also: TJIC’ ongoing rant comprising the two closely related points that:

(a) if when you attempt to implement “wonderful communism” and every single frickin’ time you get mass murder, starvation, and gulags, then that is communism

(b) if when you attempt to implement “wonderful big-government progressivism” and every single frickin’ time you get high and inefficient taxes, corrupt police, a hide-bound bureaucracy that would rather deny citizens services than allow them to be efficiently provided, subsidies to the rich via farm subsidies and publicly run symphonies, and more, then that is big-government progressivism.

Perhaps we can represent this with a graphical aid, to help with comprehension by members of the "Smart" Party?

No need to thank me, it's all part of the service.