- 26 Mar 2020 12:57
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The American Right doesn't just love failure, they worship it.
Contradicting science is part of that religion. You can see it easily in climate change, but you can also see it easily in the way Trump blew off warnings that a deadly virus was coming our way.
He also blew off our one chance to deal with it before it was spreading like wildfire.
Now the Right wants other people to pay the price for their failure. But it's not just old people dying. Docs and nurses and young adults will be dying.
Conservatives hate chaos. You can't really blame them. (The American Right are radicals these days, the opposite of conservative)
But writing off a million people isn't conservative, it's an invitation for chaos to break loose. That would be a cascade failure, or a series of cascade failures. The cost of that is an open question.
“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”
The Expanse
The Right doesn't want to look into it it because it admits things that would be politically suicidal. They are also addicted to their lies.
If I can find an economist that's doing a comparative analysis, I'll let you know. But I doubt there's enough time.
But it's worth mentioning that either way we are choosing between failures.
This is a textbook case on how not to govern.
Contradicting science is part of that religion. You can see it easily in climate change, but you can also see it easily in the way Trump blew off warnings that a deadly virus was coming our way.
He also blew off our one chance to deal with it before it was spreading like wildfire.
Now the Right wants other people to pay the price for their failure. But it's not just old people dying. Docs and nurses and young adults will be dying.
Conservatives hate chaos. You can't really blame them. (The American Right are radicals these days, the opposite of conservative)
But writing off a million people isn't conservative, it's an invitation for chaos to break loose. That would be a cascade failure, or a series of cascade failures. The cost of that is an open question.
“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”
The Expanse
The Right doesn't want to look into it it because it admits things that would be politically suicidal. They are also addicted to their lies.
If I can find an economist that's doing a comparative analysis, I'll let you know. But I doubt there's enough time.
But it's worth mentioning that either way we are choosing between failures.
This is a textbook case on how not to govern.
Facts have a well known liberal bias
- By Pants-of-dog