Here’s what Obama said: ”If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”

Actually, the military built the Internet and it wasn’t for making money, but never mind. Obama is brother to Socrates, Plato’s wise Greek philosopher who laid the foundation of rationality. There was Socrates sitting in prison after having been arrested and condemned to death for corrupting the youth of Athens. His friend, Crito, comes to him and begs him to escape, and Socrates refuses. Why? Because, he explained, it would offend the state. After all, the state brought him into existence. His parents were married through the aid of the state. He was nurtured and educated by the state. The state had him trained in music and athletics. “Can you deny,” Socrates asks in the state’s voice, “… that you are our child and slave, as your fathers were before you?”

Crito couldn’t deny it, and Socrates drank the poison hemlock and died. Obama would have approved.

I think Socrates was a Democrat.