And just to be clear, the narrative being put forth above—that everyone claiming to be poor is secretly rich—is once more not something that anyone actually believes. Offer anyone saying it the chance to live in the public housing projects or trailer parks where these secretly rich welfare queens dwell and all you’ll see is a cloud of dust and a tiny silhouette sprinting off into the horizon. But you don’t need the majority to actually believe it, only to “believe” it.
Cracked pointing out the danger of belief in belief.
I don’t think that people believe that everyone claiming to be poor is actually rich. They might, however, believe that many people (not everyone) claiming to be poor are secretly richer than they appear (which is probably not “rich” most of the time).
I am skeptical about attempts to analyze why one’s political opponents believe things, because it’s easy to strawman in this manner and generally use it as an excuse to treat one’s opponents’ claims as not worth addressing.
Cracked pointing out the danger of belief in belief.
I don’t think that people believe that everyone claiming to be poor is actually rich. They might, however, believe that many people (not everyone) claiming to be poor are secretly richer than they appear (which is probably not “rich” most of the time).
I am skeptical about attempts to analyze why one’s political opponents believe things, because it’s easy to strawman in this manner and generally use it as an excuse to treat one’s opponents’ claims as not worth addressing.