This week, I will be examining this and some of my own variants. In one form or another, I get letters like this all the time. And, not just from Libertarians, although that group seems to excel in this type of sophistry. This pisses me off on several grounds. The first and most glaring reason is the blatantly undemocratic nature of this allegation.
Some writers say it up front.
Others merely leave one to draw one's own conclusions. How, the reasoning goes, can good decisions come from such a dumb electorate. Or, at least, long live the duly certified expert. As far as I can tell, all it really means to be rich is that you have more wealth, as likely to have been acquired by luck, corruption, inheritance or some other less noble attribute than by being clever and resourceful. Not that Billary is any dumber than most.