It's not just an idea, it's a self replicating structure.
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.John Stuart Mill, letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington (March, 1866)
Actually, if you read Mill's statement carefully he doesn't say all Conservatives are stupid, just that generally stupids are Conservative. Not that King George is Conservative, he just says that he is, which is enough for most Republicans, who are too stupid to notice the difference.
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