03-26-2021, 12:14 PM
(03-26-2021, 09:41 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(03-15-2021, 09:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:
- So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under
the bus? They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've
batted away Clinton's accusers. I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do
with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even
care about those. Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with
an even loonier leftist.
The big news about Cuomo is that he killed thousands of people in nursing homes by requiring them to accept people who had covid, and who proceeded to infect the rest of the residents. This has been known by conservatives for almost a year, but has only recently broken into the mainstream media. It also applies to lots of other blue state governors, and it the main reason why New York's covid death rate is so much higher than Florida's.
The sexual harassment "scandal" is just a way to bury Cuomo's - and other blue state governors' - mishandling of covid.
The big fault lies in the cover-up, and a cover-up of incompetence even without prior criminality is itself a crime for a government official. I have been hitting former President Trump hard for his bungled approach to COVID-19, but any misdirection from anyone can be a contributing factor. It was easy enough for people to blame t he spread of COVID-19 in New York upon its rapid transmission through NYC transit systems, especially the subways.
I have praised Republican governors, especially in Indiana and Ohio, for responding swiftly and effectively to COVID-19. Mass death is not a partisan issue. Do right (Holcomb, DeWine) and you get my praise for bucking the Party and the partisan orientation of your state. Do badly, like Abbott or Ducey, and you get my scorn.
Democrats tend to be much less lenient on their own for sexual harassment, as we have seen with Al Franken and now see with Andrew Cuomo. Right-wing authoritarians (and much of the GOP has gone that way) find it far easier to excuse serious misconduct. This sort recognizes Humanity as hopelessly depraved, and that one can overlook the misbehavior of such heroes as one has. Well, nobody is perfect, and without power one cannot achieve "national greatness". With that national greatness may be war, corruption, persecutions, and the degradation of workers' lives, but annexing Lebensraum or some Co-Prosperity Sphere, sacrifices are necessary.
It astonishes me that so many Republicans still think it OK that President Trump could egg on the Capitol Putsch, which resembles either the Bolsheviks storming the Winter Palace or the Beer Hall Putsch -- take your pick.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
