Some anonymous commenter said it...I am not that smart, but I recognize intelligence when I read it.

When a belief has an unreasonable basis, it can't be removed through reason.

When a belief has an unreasonable basis, it can't be removed through reason.

Corporations aren't people. They're better than people.

And all people remember her for was the welfare fraud! She was a murderer, and stole and sold children! And her father was reportedly quite enraged that for some of her welfare personas, she posed as a WOC, so she wasn't the "Welfare Queen" boogeyman in that sense either.

You're also leaving out all of the upper middle class and upper class people that also get subsidies. Deductions for second homes, yachts, retirement accounts, and all of the dozens of deductions and loopholes offered that greatly reduce their tax burden. Which is essentially a government hand out. But THOSE hand outs…

I bet if we tallied up the money given to already-profitable businesses with the money used to subsidize said businesses terrible wages, we'd have close to enough to fund a second New Deal.

Also the government subsidies to the workers are in the end really government subsidies to the corporations that refuse to pay their workers a livable wage.

I can't imagine what kind of delusions lead to this kind of stuff. "Why would they lie?" Seriously? God, that's infuriating.

Well I stand corrected. And as we all know, a single piece of anecdotal evidence is more important than official reports and meticulously collected data.

The Repubs have this bizarre thing about stamping out every last possible instance of any kind of fraud in the world. If even one person out of a million abuses a program, that's it, we can't have it. There's a certain rate of fraud that will always be there, just like there will always be some amount of crime no…

Well, a goodly number of RWNJs would state some or all of the following:

It is sickening, and it's the same line of thinking that has people believing that rich folks are smarter than us and deserve our love and respect. "Oooohh...Donald Trump is talking! Tell me more!"

Sorry you had to hear it from me. Have a drink.

More and more, I'm leaning toward that conclusion. Once they've made up their mind, that's what they will always believe, evidence be damned.

The people hypocritically opposing both higher wages and assistance programs don't consider poor people to actually be people. No matter how much evidence they're confronted with, the never accept that someone like the woman in your example could even exist. Instead, they latch on to the one unverified example of the…

It may be because they're idiots. It's taken me decades to finally realize that that is what's afflicting my supposedly-highly-educated parents, who are definitely of the "not my problem, get a better job" set.

Consider the single mother with one child, and just for moral fun, consider that she's that way because her husband, with whom she had the kid in wedlock and everything, got run over by a Hummer H2 driven by a Republican on his way to the revival tent.

She was a good Christian girl, learned to be a housewife and a…

So do I.

I have some really difficult and conflicting feelings about this.