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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeading 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 GOPs 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
Turbineguy
(37,362 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,483 posts)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.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)I am first and foremost a Christian.
Literally the first sentence on his issues page. Well, John Fugelsang said it best:
blogslut
(38,007 posts)that means rich people are unnatural?