This week, the competition for this coveted prize was absolutely ferocious. Indeed, a veritable blizzard of brainless reform posts poured forth from the “progressive” blogosphere.” But this post by Patrick Appel takes the biscuit on the basis of its breathtaking contempt for the voters.
Responding to a post at Reason discussing the value of placing “individuals on equal tax footing as employers when it comes to purchasing health insurance plans,” which (BTW) John McCain proposed during last year’s campaign, Appel agrees. But he thinks it’s politically dicey:
As a matter of policy, this is exactly correct. But ending employer coverage would expose Americans to true health care costs for the first time … And Americans do not typically understand the that benefits come out of wages. The public would react like a massive financial burden had been created regardless of reality.
In other words, it’s a good idea to ”expose Americans to true health care costs.” We shouldn’t, however, include such a plan in any reform bill because the voters are just too bloody stupid to understand what’s good for them, and would thus cut up rough come election time.
It is, by the way, this patronizing attitude that has once again stalled the progressive agenda. Every program concocted by these people assumes that the voters are idiots. Ironically, the voters understand this perfectly well, which is one reason they respond to the anti-elitism of Sarah Palin.
So, the award for dumbest post of the week goes to the hopelessly smug and insular Patrick Appel. Congratulations, dude!
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