5. The likelihood of death or serious harm from failing to wash your hands, wipe your feet and brush your teeth is too ridiculous to bother mentioning. But that doesn’t make doing those things any less reasonable.
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16. It’s often said the Republicans have no recognizable ideology. They no longer stand for state’s rights, fiscal conservatism, limited government and the rest. That ignores the obvious, though.
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17. They stand for whatever the Democrats stand against; they stand against whatever the Democrats stand for. We have reached a point in political history in which the parties are yin and yang, such that
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18. the Democrats go out of their way to be reasonable while the Republicans go out of their way to be unreasonable. The Democrats take pleasure in helping people in this time of the covid. The Republicans, meanwhile, take pleasure in hurting people.
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20. Most people most of the time seek out, and accept, what’s reasonable—and move on. So most people are going to look at a ghoul like Peter D’Abrosca and think he’s full of shit.
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21. He got vaccinated like everyone else did. He’s just trying to get a rise out of people by saying things most people would never say, because most people get more pleasure out of human relationships than their sadistic ability to dominate them.
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22. While sadism can yield short-term electoral results, as might be the case for the midterms, it can’t over time. Most people are going to be drawn to messages like Joe Biden’s. During his address to the Congress this week, he asked all Americans over 16 to get vaccinated.
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23. Not just for yourself, he said, but for everyone—for “we the people.” “In America, we do our part. We all do our part. That’s all I’m asking. That we do our part.
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24. JRB: If we do that, we’ll meet the central challenge of the age by proving that democracy is durable and strong. Autocrats will not win the future. We will.” Full article:https://stoehr.substack.com/p/fighting-vaccines-is-fighting-reasonableness …
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