No, it wasn’t the letter. I have usually voted D for other reasons, and Republicans say lots of things that trip the same heuristic like trying to scare me abou

No, it wasn’t the letter. I have usually voted D for other reasons, and Republicans say lots of things that trip the same heuristic like trying to scare me about immigrants or “critical race theory.” It was because someone in power was saying it was a looming catastrophe that could only be solved by doing radical things. That makes me think it’s a cynical power grab. Sort of like how we had incontrovertible proof there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Green ideology also triggered my skepticism since ideology blinds people to reality. Like the political party, the ideology doesn’t matter. Any time a bunch of believers in an ideology are harping on something that others are not I get real skeptical. These days it’s hard for me to believe anything unless I see the same information coming from multiple sources with different biases. If it’s all coming from the same sources with one consistent bias it’s probably bullshit.