On Christmas Eve, Anthony Clark, a candidate for the House seat representing Illinois’s 7th Congressional District, issued a tweet that has had quite a few scratching their heads. Clark happens to be a Democratic Socialist, so that explains quite a lot.
“If Billionaires didn’t exist, Poverty wouldn’t either,” he wrote.
╭━━━━━━╮
┃ ══ ┃
┃██████ ┃
┃ If Billionaires┃
┃ didn’t exist ┃
┃ Poverty ┃
┃ wouldn’t ┃
┃ either! ┃
┃██████ ┃
┃ ○ ┃
╰━━━━━━╯— Anthony V. Clark (@anthonyvclark20) December 24, 2019
Right. Because poverty didn’t come along until there were billionaires. As you can imagine, Twitter lit him up.
This is a very good educational tool. I bet my 10th graders will be able to spot the error in this reasoning.
— Audacious Denizen (@NormalDenizen) December 25, 2019
We suspect younger kids could figure it out.
https://twitter.com/sdcrosby/status/1210156221795315712
“Not to mention it’s just objectively, painfully stupid,” Twitchy said.
Sadly, this is the kind of stupid we’ve come to expect from so-called Democratic Socialists — thanks in very large part to economics major Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who appears to believe that the rich stuff their fortunes under mattresses rather than reinvest in — and grow — the economy, thereby creating jobs. One person on Twitter even asked Clark:
https://twitter.com/OCNaNa2013/status/1210227892266786816
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