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To: Graystone who wrote (12499)	5/7/2020 11:50:31 AM
From: Joe Btfsplk	4 Recommendations Recommended By dave rose John Hayman miraje TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

The President decided science could be ignored, he was wrong If you're referring to a delayed response to this covid business, Trump was following the advice of the "science experts". Fauci was telling people in February to go ahead with cruises, Birx was unexcited and it was Democrat politicians telling people to attend huge Chinese New Year celebrations. Travelers probably first brought this present to the Chinese communities from which it spread. It puzzles me how folks on your side of the divide can be so gullible and give credence to evil people. A partial explanation might be found in this excerpt from an article in City Journal: "This desire for encompassment is shared across the political spectrum, but it’s manifest in different ways. On the right, it inspires patriotic country music and political demands for Americans to unite against foreign threats by building up the military, fighting terrorists, and strengthening the border. But conservatives put less emphasis on big government because they tend to satisfy their yearning for emotional solidarity in churches and the other “little platoons” of civil society praised by Edmund Burke. On the left, though, solidarity usually requires big government. The desire for encompassment inspired Marxists to dream of workers uniting to create a classless utopia, and it continues to inspire what Klein calls “The People’s Romance,” the popular affection for government as a binding communitarian force. “If people see government activism as a singular way of binding society together,” Klein writes, “then they may favor any particular government intervention virtually for its own sake—whether it be government intervention in schooling, urban transit, postal services, Social Security, or anything else—because they love the way in which it makes them American.” This affection explains why leftists often rail at the power wielded by large corporations but favor government monopolies in transportation and health care. It explains why.........."