09-04-2020, 08:23 AM
(09-04-2020, 06:37 AM)Isoko Wrote: Bob,
Perhaps America has more people then an average European country hence the higher number of cases? Honestly, I just cannot see how you can blame Trump for the virus when the Democrats would have made the same mistakes. My own perception on this is that liberals hate Trump and what he stands for and they are willing to blame him for something that was out of his control.
Donald Trump is a vile man, and his methods of governing (divide et impera) are novel to America. He is a racist and a religious bigot. He has inflamed ethnic discord as none have done in American public life since the failed efforts to thwart the Civil Rights movement.
Democrats took quick measures (as did Republican governors of Indiana and Ohio) to stop the spread of COVID-19. The amazing thing is that governors of Indiana and Ohio did much the same things that Democratic Governors of Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky did. To be sure, Big Business did its part in putting sporting events and movie showings on hiatus, closing gyms, and mandating masks in stores. Democrats did back down when they found that they could allow golf and tennis.
Liberals despise Trump for other things, but nothing that Trump did killed people as COVID-19 did. Trump put the consumer economy over life... Trump's sole strong appeal was on stock market valuations as evidence of his economic stewardship.
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.