On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > from the 19th century thinker John Stuart Mill (via Paul Krugman via > Brad deLong): > > "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I > meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative...." > > we can replace the word "Conservative" by "Republican" or whomever > is the target of our ire.
Mill's contemporary, Lord Palmerston, while still a Tory, described his own Conservative Party as "the Stupid party." By "stupid" he seems to have meant "mentally inert." And that would certainly fit our Demos, Repugs, Libs, and SocDems! Shane Mage "scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to" _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
