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I feel like 50% of the criticism about “liberals” being wrong are valid, and the other 50% mask the different roles liberals and conservatives play in society.

I feel like 50% of the criticism about “liberals” being wrong are valid, and the other 50% mask the different roles liberals and conservatives play in society. Like Fauci did what, at least if a year of his leadership under Trump? And then the is somehow gets retconned into liberals screwed everything up, and conservatives get to say I told you so? And now Fauci, who took his role under Reagen and led through at least 3 other Republican administrations is a liberal? We’ve gotten to this place where everyone is afraid to criticize them constant and endless stupidities of certain personalities on the right politicizing nearly everything about the pandemic to, “it’s all liberals fault”.

hkpack 2y ago
It is an ad for the book. Like with everything in the US, the goal with this is to make money. On the surface level - it is extremely dumb to attribute trust in the institutions to groupthink. Alternative is what we have now - vibe trusting media influencers.
- poorts 2y ago
  Surely a rational alternative is scepticism of everyone, particularly of those that say things that you might otherwise agree with. Longer term, a good alternative is to build trust in institutions through transparency and application of the scientific method (and for the institutions to contribute measurably to outcomes that actually help improve the quality of life of the general-public and not mostly to outcomes that ultimately benefit the princes of the world).