....”Politics never contribute to a better design of anything”....
....and politics also prevents a lot of otherwise helpful developments!
With the Left, EVERYTHING is political. Everything. Even math is political to them.
I was having this discussion with my brother tonight about the Leftist approach to problems and solutions versus a conservative approach.
They get an idea, and they latch on to it. They engage in what Thomas Sowell calls “Stage One Thinking”. They get an idea, and they run with it.
They have this completely perverse mindset where, if presented with a problem, they settle immediately onto a solution and run with it. They seem utterly incapable of thinking past the first and most immediate move of a chess piece, and that first move is nearly, to them, impenetrably sound and infallible, and they set their course of action in concrete.
The disasters are numerous and predictable.
You have some kind of worm causing a problem in a water system? Bring up some non-native fish from South America somewhere that is known to eat that worm, and your problem is solved.
They always seem surprised when there is a side effect they didn’t foresee. It is always “unexpected”.
That South American fish that does indeed eat the worm in South America, finds that in North America, there is tastier food and eats that instead. It becomes a completely invasive species, wiping out native flora and fauna, to the point it is a disaster. Entire industries are gutted, people lose their jobs, etc.
Or, teaching math in school. They get this great idea to teach math in a new way, such as Common Core math, because it will be more accessible or understandable to a wider population of kids.
They think.
With that “One Stage Thinking” they never, EVER ask the ONE question you should ALWAYS ask: “What if it doesn’t work?”
They never seem to ask that question. They just throw everything at it and invest everything in it. Then, when it doesn’t work, they are nowhere to be found. Nobody is ever held accountable
My brother asked me “What do you think their estimation of OUR approach to problems would be as conservatives? Wouldn’t it just be a mirror image?
I responded “No. They would likely view us as obstructionist for not wanting to run full speed down the path they intend to follow.”