Hah, leave it to good old Scott Adams to produce tripe like this.

First, his arguments apply to any politician ever. Yet, I'm sure he didn't make these claims against Obozo. And I doubt he will if Hitlery gets elected.

Second, his arguments are straight from a mold; "progressive liberal" Statists have a totally incoherent world view that doesn't stand to logic for five seconds. Every time I hear them speak, it's always the same things: "people are 'irrational', so the State should make decisions for them", "to my opponents, the facts don't matter", and on and on. So the fact that Adams can merely reproduce the same tired, totally silly talking points, and get his inanity published by a newspaper-- unsurprisingly, the Washington Compost in this example-- is pretty sad.

On Adams as a person, he is from the same cloth as other "late Boomers", such as Jeff Jarvis; late 50s, gray-haired metrosexual weasels with glasses. They have zero talent, no character or principles, an insatiable inferiority complex, and not a single original idea has ever occurred to them. In fact, I've read on more than one occasion that Adams doesn't even write or draw his own material anymore (I wonder if this applied to the interview as well?).

Heck, someone even made a mock Twitter account of Jarvis, describing him as "someone with an online influence massively greater than the thoughtfulness of his positions. It's all style and rhetorical flourishes which don't stand up to scrutiny-- but do grab attention." Sounds about right to me, and the same expression would aptly apply to Adams.

To feed their complex, they cry for State intervention into everything, and desperately hold on to the "social contract" fallacy as the only spider's silk-thin thread that keeps them connected to sanity. The only reason people have ever heard of their sad breed is because young people, indoctrinated into Statism themselves, latch on to the messaging, like baby pigs on the teet. And people like Adams and Jarvis are more than happy to play along, because it benefits them.

I also remember the pathetic one-way fued Adams had with the classy and principled Bill Watterson; I think Watterson had something-- lets call it "character"-- that Adams envied, and at every opportunity, Adams took pot shots at Watterson. I even remember the really sad and pathetic commentary from Adams when Watterson retired. It was a window right into Adams' soul, and what could be seen there was nothing more than a scared little boy that never quite made it into adulthood.

I don't wish death on anyone, but the sooner this class of people-- and they are legion-- moves on to either senility or the afterlife, the better off the world will be. Then again, the "Gen X'ers" may be even worse...