You people over there, you’re stupid.

You people over here, well you’re haters.

Jonathan Gruber apparently is dripping in certitude and victimhood.  Aren’t these the two paramount characteristics of a progressive?  Mr. Gruber should be the hood ornament for the progressive’s figurative limousine.  (And there are plenty of real world limousine liberals.)

A pseudointellectual from the ivory tower world of mutual admiration, Mr. Gruber delights that he fooled the American voter with his “tortured” Affordable Care Act (ACA) efforts.  Far be it from Mr. Gruber to go to the next logical conclusion; the people who embraced the falsely presented ACA were Democrats.  In MIT lingo it might look like this:

If A = the stupid American voters who thought the ACA was great legislation

B = Democrats (minus Senator Schumer)

Then  A = B

Now Mr. Gruber declares his comments on the ACA and the process, the “tortured” process (his words) that propelled the ACA into law without scrutiny, will only “feed the haters.”  We are thus led to the conclusion, by Mr. Gruber’s tortured logic, that anyone who inquires, notices, or objects to his antics regarding the formation and passage of this bill are “haters”.

Now Gruber is a victim of “haters”.

“I am laying low on this. Anything I say will just feed the haters. I went on MSNBC yesterday and apologized but other than that I have been strongly advised to stay off the radar,” Gruber wrote.

So,

If  X = People who notice those who promoted underhanded, deceitful, federally funded, tortured legislation slipped through in the dark of the night

And Y = “haters”

Then, according to Mr. Gruber, X = Y

We all grew up with someone like this, didn’t we?  The condescending, always correct and “you’re stupid” kid who declares his elevated intellect as if each declaration is some reassurance to his own inferiority complex.  That’s him, over by the swing sets.  There is a group of them telling each other how smart they are.  A faculty lounge of sorts.  They know what is best for all the other kids on the playground. And if you disagree with them or notice their bad behavior or poor decision making, well, you know what you are, don’t you?  You are in the “Y” category, of course.