This dichotomy turned so many otherwise normal people into apparent sociopaths
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In retrospect, I think we may have been truly fucked from the moment we collectively decided that caring about COVID deaths vs. caring about working class livelihoods could be a legitimate tribal marker
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Problem is that getting checks to ppl is a job of congress and they won't act.
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We had like three weeks to take collective action, nobody had a plan in that time, that was game over and the politicization moved in as a coping mechanism to not admit it.
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Yeah, this was the thing to be avoided at all costs, and I still can't believe it happened.
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I don't think causality flowed that way. Partisan silliness can be completely explained if most voters are strongly partisan, and take their copartisans' side when there are disputes. In that context, whenever Trump forms a silly belief, many follow, and things get silly. 1/
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That theory also predicts that Dems will react partisanly, and rationality does seem to suggest extreme caution re the covid-safety of BLM protests and grade school, but Dems fell all over themselves to take those risks, consistent with their partisan outlook.
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The response to COVID was positioned as “caring about lives” vs. “caring about the economy” which is a false choice. You can’t care about people’s lives without caring about their livelihoods.
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Wake up and smell the S&P 500 baby
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Tribal marker? Would providing an income / financial support to those unable to work neatly solve this?
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As long as the financial support is given voluntarily.
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