07-25-2016, 09:56 PM
I was watching a clip of Newt Gingrich trying to create a reality out of feelings. The interviewer kept presenting him with FBI crime data showing crime sharply declining since the 90s, but Newt kept pushing that there was a 'feeling' otherwise, that the people felt unsafe, and this feeling somehow made the hard data irrelevant. These feelings justified continuing a campaign based on suppressing crime, latinos, muslims, blacks.
Color me dubious. A rant based on media and politician based agitation and propaganda ought not to define the race.
But part of me noted a partisan flip. Democrats pushing gun control do the same thing with the same crime data. Something must be done about guns because the crime rates are so high.
While in a lot of ways the Democrats can try to present themselves as the party of reality, they too will go with feelings, fear and disregard for reality when they think they can score political points.
Color me dubious. A rant based on media and politician based agitation and propaganda ought not to define the race.
But part of me noted a partisan flip. Democrats pushing gun control do the same thing with the same crime data. Something must be done about guns because the crime rates are so high.
While in a lot of ways the Democrats can try to present themselves as the party of reality, they too will go with feelings, fear and disregard for reality when they think they can score political points.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.