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Its time to run these folks out of the legislature. They are not equipped to run the state from 200 W. Washington St on a part time basis. Most of the time they don’t know what they are talking about. Republicans are nonsense mongers, and our state is hostage. What future industry will locate in this state?
So our health is now in the hands of Republican politicians, not people with training in health. How comforting!
Steve and Pat, behold the danger of the populism peddled by the Republican Party these days.
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Frenk listed four common attributes of various populist leaders who have mishandled the pandemic: First, “the tendency to underestimate or dismiss expertise,” because “experts are considered part of the corrupt elites that the populist leader is going to defend people from”; second, “the distrust of science” and of the sort of “independent, critical thinking” that populist leaders with authoritarian inclinations dislike; third, the impulse to divide citizens between the “good people embodied by the populist leader” and “the corrupt elites,” even going so far as to politicize public-health measures such as mask wearing, rather than instilling in the public “a sense of shared destiny”; and fourth, the instinct to “trap themselves in a narrative” and then “refuse to acknowledge that they were wrong” and correct course, blaming others instead. The governments that have performed best against COVID-19, by contrast, have implemented policies “informed by science and by expertise and by political leaders who unify the country.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/covid-19-lays-bare-price-populism/618838/
Oh, well if Frenk and the Atlantic have a position by all means it must be the correct one. Isn’t the Atlantic HQ’d in NYC? What policy is working there of the populist governor and mayor? I apply the Ted Kennedy doctrine. If Ted Kennedy would have been for it, I’m against! May only be right 99.9% of the time, but you’ve got to settle for a little imperfection in life. The Oldsmobile doesn’t float!
Who to trust? I trust LOCAL ELECTED LEADERS. Not medical professionals or the CDC that I have no access to, but my local elected officials I do have access to. Fortunately our Indiana Legislature values our right to be governed by the local leaders we elect. Our rural community experienced very different conditions during the pandemic than metro Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, and Lafayette. What was prudent in those communities was not the same as what was prudent in our community. Thus the need to rely on local elected leadership. The media and medical professionals focused very little attention on the downside to closing the economy and restricting citizens movement. Significant economic losses and serious spikes in mental health cases including anxiety, depression and suicide were all but ignored. Covid statistical reports are questionable at best. The outcomes of our medical professionals mandating conflicting guidelines and requirements, and ignoring the bigger picture of the human and economic casualties of restricting commerce, have resulted in breaking trust between the medical community and citizens. If the medical professionals want to control our lives and and dictate policy, they can run for elected office. Until then, I will be governed by my local leaders that were duly elected to lead our community. Contrary to what many would have us believe, these local elected leaders are not stupid. Fortunately, our Indiana legislators have taken the right actions to ensure power is not grabbed from whom we elect and have access to.