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It’s insane. You are “emperors new clothes”-ing their actions. There is no logic to it, it’s make believe for the narrative machine.
by intended 1y ago
It’s insane. You are “emperors new clothes”-ing their actions.
There is no logic to it, it’s make believe for the narrative machine.
- jama211 1y agoThe truth likely lies in the middle. Some are truely just insane, some are trying to shoehorn or steer special interests through the insanity, etc.
- anigbrowl 1y agoI don't think that's the case. Rather, GP argues that the policy is rationally corrupt. I tend to agree. Many people in the political center would rather believe that terrible policies are the product of stupidity than malice. I too am a fan of Hanlon's razor, but if stupidity were controlling you would expect occasional stupidly good outcomes as well as stupidly bad ones. When you have a decade-long pattern of evidence that decision-making is driven by animus and greed, blaming all the bad outcomes on stupidity or insanity devolves into hand-wringing helplessness instead of a willingness to take the necessary action. Hence the current Congressional Democratic non-policy of condemning Trump but also just waiting for him to die rather than trying to mount any serious effort to remove him.