SIROTA DOESN'T QUITE GET IT...

In an opinion piece about why too many people believe the unemployed are "lazy bastards," David Sirota writes:

First, there's what psychologists call the Just-World Fallacy -- the tendency to believe the world is inherently fair. This delusion is embedded in our pervasive up-by-the-bootstraps, everyone-can-be-a-millionaire catechism. The myth of the lazy unemployed can seem to make sense because it connects those ancient fables to current news, effectively alleging that today's jobless deserve their plight.

I think this fallacy is a logical consequence of conservatives' belief in the Free Market Fairy, which entails that the free market is NEVER less than perfection.