I think calling all non-hobos (or all conservatives? I'm not really sure who he's so angry at here) Social Darwinists is a little extreme. Social Darwinism is

I think calling all non-hobos (or all conservatives? I'm not really sure who he's so angry at here) Social Darwinists is a little extreme. Social Darwinism is an ideology, not a process. We can make observations from a sociocultural evolution standpoint, but we can't really label all the winners in whatever situation as Social Darwinists. I think hardly anyone that votes the way they do does so from a Social Darwinist standpoint; it's more or less an extinct ideology in popular politics. So I can say that Bob Republican votes against welfare because he's greedy. I can say that greed is an element of evolution. But I cannot say he's a Social Darwinist until he says something like "I'm voting this way so my race/class/gender lives, and theirs dies out." Furthermore, calling someone a Social Darwinist is right up there with calling someone Hitler. Let's not water down the terminology by putting the label on some ignorant woman in a soup kitchen.