Simply on the basis of how everyone responds to situations in their daily lives, one would expect that certain universal standards of judgment apply. Here’s an example: no matter who you are or where you’re from, if you found a guy to tile your bathroom and then he didn’t even attempt it, in the very least you’re not going to hire him again.
It’s a sound principle: if you mislead me, I won’t trust your word in the future, especially when that costs me something. Applying this standard beyond interactions in their own personal lives is one of the fundamentals that separate rightwing dissidents from their peers. It seems bizarre, but it ought to be recognized that this is a critical disparity between how we draw rational conclusions while the rest of the population embraces insanity.
For instance, if this same no-show contractor offered to come over and give you an estimate on fixing your cracked driveway, you’d take his call for approximately how many seconds? Exactly. Tile and concrete are two different things, but this is the same deadbeat.
Accordingly, a politician who tells you that white supremacist domestic terrorism is the premier threat to our national security receives just as much consideration when she admonishes you to get an experimental injection. Different subjects, same lying hack. The political principle is no different from the practical. They call it being an extremist when actually it’s just comprehensive rationality.
The other thing is that when somebody with whom you transact repeatedly fails to uphold his end, do you really care what excuse he makes? Does it matter that the third excuse that guy made for why he didn’t show up was that his ex-wife took him to court because this sounds more serious than the first two? No, you get somebody else.
We’re being steered from one escalating catastrophe to the next by the exact same people who’d get blacklisted if they pulled their nonsense anywhere other than politics or the media. This is one of the primary reasons why.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
