The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-15-2020, 11:50 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-15-2020, 03:56 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Agreed, an authoritarian government could act more decisively than a democratic one.  Agreed, they could respond to this particular threat more effectively.  Agreed, a democratic government is preferable overall.

But a lot of democratic governments did a lot better than Trump.  How to fight the bug is not hard.  You shut down completely and all at once while defending the borders.  You get the number of people infected low, then test and trace to keep them low.  You produce and distribute enough ventilators, PPE, test kits and so on.  In doing these things, most democratic countries did much better than Trump.  

The solution is not to send a message that the bug isn't serious and make gaining sufficient PPE and testing difficult.  The solution is not to politicize the virus but to respond with science.

Now you can continue to try to view it upside down, but it is clear you are viewing it upside down.  I told Xenakis over in the Generational Dynamics thread that he could convince the people already sharing his bubble, but to people outside the bubble the bubble would be really obvious.  You have much the same problem.  In order to reallocate blame, you have to ignore the science of what is happening.  Those outside the Trump bubble are going to recognize easily what you are doing.

Who is ignoring the science? I'm not ignoring the science like you seem to be doing right now.

You and Trump ignore the science. I admit I am assuming that lives of any color matter. If you assume massive death is cool, you can ignore the science.

Do lives matter to you?