It’s been a long time since I lived in the US, but I do remember not being convinced by the sincerity of many senior politicians around things such as abortion, free markets and so on. It felt like a ruse to gain/maintain power and promote the interests of whatever oligarchs they were working for.
One notable example would be local senator Rand Paul promoting the use of ivermectin for COVID a few years ago.
I had several acquaintances who studied to become doctors. From my interactions with them, I got the impression that the US medical education system was rather demanding and did not allow for random degeneracy.
I believe Paul finished a highly competitive US medical school, so it is reasonable to assume that the tantrums around using ivermectin for COVID were driven by political considerations. It seems that Paul knew that it was not a legitimate medicine in context of COVID and he knowingly promoted misinformation (and put people at risk) for political gain.
Is this a similar sort of scheme? i.e. Tuberville’s granddaughter is actually vaccinated and her parents and Tuberville actually support vaccination in private but Tuberville is acting out publicly for political reasons? I am assuming it is not possible to find out whether his granddaughter did or did not get vaccinated (medical privacy).
In the grand scheme of things; Whether they are making it up or not enough people eat this up at face value for it to do damage
That said, I think most of these people are going for political gain.
I apply the same logic to religious right as well. Trump is the antithesis of nearly every religion’s teachings but I don’t think these religious leaders even believe in their own God.
Is Tuberville lying?
It’s been a long time since I lived in the US, but I do remember not being convinced by the sincerity of many senior politicians around things such as abortion, free markets and so on. It felt like a ruse to gain/maintain power and promote the interests of whatever oligarchs they were working for.
One notable example would be local senator Rand Paul promoting the use of ivermectin for COVID a few years ago.
I had several acquaintances who studied to become doctors. From my interactions with them, I got the impression that the US medical education system was rather demanding and did not allow for random degeneracy.
I believe Paul finished a highly competitive US medical school, so it is reasonable to assume that the tantrums around using ivermectin for COVID were driven by political considerations. It seems that Paul knew that it was not a legitimate medicine in context of COVID and he knowingly promoted misinformation (and put people at risk) for political gain.
Is this a similar sort of scheme? i.e. Tuberville’s granddaughter is actually vaccinated and her parents and Tuberville actually support vaccination in private but Tuberville is acting out publicly for political reasons? I am assuming it is not possible to find out whether his granddaughter did or did not get vaccinated (medical privacy).
Or am I overthinking this?
In the grand scheme of things; Whether they are making it up or not enough people eat this up at face value for it to do damage
That said, I think most of these people are going for political gain.
I apply the same logic to religious right as well. Trump is the antithesis of nearly every religion’s teachings but I don’t think these religious leaders even believe in their own God.
oh, they do. full faith and confidence in the us dollar.
edit: pulled out parent quote
The usual adage is “never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity”, but in politicians’ cases, I feel this should be reversed.
Maybe, but Potatotown is also really, really dumb