Friday, May 01, 2020
Life beyond Manweller
I was sinking into Manwellerian despair. No chance of "accountability", no alternate countries, no alternate views. When even Art Robinson, the master of immunity, won't touch the subject, there's no point in looking for solutions.
Recalibrate: A quick review of history AND current situation shows that it's not quite so simple. We never get a real choice of agenda but we do get different personalities.
Thinking again of current Mayor Woodward's heroic patience, which has made a real difference. Previous mayor Copkiller Condon would have enthusiastically amplified the lockdown instead of gradually weakening it. He showed his Sorosian shark teeth at every opportunity. He enjoyed killing Deplorables.
Mayors are nominally non-partisan, but both Woodward and Condon made R noises in campaigning, and both were mainly supported by real estate developers. If you were only looking at funding and party rhetoric you wouldn't see a difference.
Even at the governor level, the dividing line between sane and insane is only partly along R vs D. It's a sliding bell curve, not a bimodal distribution. Two of the craziest governors are D, and the only sane governor is R, but in the middle part of the curve many Rs are closer to the crazy end. People are different. Innate personality matters FAR more than verbiage.
Labels: Patient people
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