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 Clark for Congress (@anthonyvclark20) December 24, 2019
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
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.
— Martin (@tjaulow) December 25, 2019
We suspect younger kids could figure it out.
I guess we'll need to somehow account for the poverty and starvation extending back through history pre-Rockefeller (the first billionaire).
— Seth Crosby (@sdcrosby) December 26, 2019
“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:
Who do you think creates jobs?
— Laurie ❌ ⭐️⭐️⭐️#MAGA #KAG #TRUMP (@OCNaNa2013) December 26, 2019
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