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lowkell

(671 posts) Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:25 PM Jan 2019

Leading Virginia Republican: "Poverty is the natural state of human beings"

Just remember, this nutter came oh-so-close (136,610-131,321) to being the 2018 Virginia GOP’s U.S. Senate nominee, losing to neo-Confederate/white nationalist Corey Stewart. Really tells you all you need to know about the Virginia Republican Party - and today's GOP more broadly - that those were the top two choices (possibly the most extreme of them all, Ewwwwww Jackson, was #3)

http://bluevirginia.us/2019/01/leading-virginia-republican-inequality-is-not-automatically-an-indication-of-injustice-poverty-is-the-natural-state-of-human-beings

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Leading Virginia Republican: "Poverty is the natural state of human beings" (Original Post) lowkell Jan 2019 OP

In a republican paradise. Turbineguy Jan 2019 #1

He's right, but ... DavidDvorkin Jan 2019 #2

From his campaign page: Salviati Jan 2019 #3

Haha! Okay, so... blogslut Jan 2019 #4

Turbineguy

(37,359 posts)

1. In a republican paradise.

Reply to lowkell (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:27 PM

Jan 2019

DavidDvorkin

(19,480 posts)

2. He's right, but ...

Reply to lowkell (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:55 PM

Jan 2019

Thomas Hobbes said of the natural state of man: “No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

That's why we have governments and government programs.