My hatred of Bolshevism and Bolsheviks is not founded on their silly system of economics, or their absurd doctrine of an impossible equality. It arises from the bloody and devastating terrorism which they practice in every land into which they have broken, and by which alone their criminal regime can be maintained. Winston Churchill
George Rebane
This is another installment in RR’s educational series to illuminate the workings of a liberal mind. As such it contributes one more important illustration of how the liberal mind functions, and why it is nigh impossible today to make any measurable progress when engaged with them in the understanding of political processes and the shaping of public policies.
Here one of our prominent liberal readers, burdened for years with a severe case of TDS, takes the former president to task once more for what to him is yet another of Trump’s lies – purposeful spread of deceit to harm Americans. Before dissecting the errors, we examine the relevant parts of the exchange between the liberal and me as taken from the comment stream of the 23jan21 posting of Scattershots (here).
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Liberal Commenter: Trump had a PLAN that promised 20 million inoculations by the end of the year. Only 4 million were actually enacted. Another Trump lie.
Rebane: Those kind of hopeful promises by a president achieving historical accomplishments is all that the lame Left has to hang their hat, what a shame that there are grassroots Americans who can always be bamboozled by such astute observations and accusations. And, unfortunately, that share of our population is growing, thanks to our unionized propaganda mill that the Dems are trying to pass off as our public school system.
Liberal: So George you don’t consider Trump’s not even near achievement of his promise to be a lie? At least he could attempt to explain to the American people why it failed.
Rebane (responding to another liberal commenter): apparently our leftwingers never heard of low unemployment rates for minorities, or fastest time to develop vaccines, or the increase in middle-class wage purchasing power in decades, or …
Liberal: That’s a clumsy diversion from the question at hand. Why did Trump lie about the gross difference in his promise to deliver vaccines and the actual number he delivered? He only delivered 20% of what he assured the American people would be available. Was it out of ignorance that he made that prediction or did he simply lie and why did he think it not worthy of an explanation after the facts became known?
Rebane: My (above) citations were material, your endless citations of Trump’s “lies” are really inconsequential and an attempt to foster some kind gotcha dialogue. We’ve gone over this countless times. Do you really think this attempt at discourse is profitable on RR. Neither side accepts nor respects the other’s worldview. Why don’t you try working on some ways that the ‘unification’ your hero spoke of (and then immediately abrogated) could be achieved? Since you’re one of his believers, how do you think that he is now going to attempt to unify us? That’s a real conversation.
Liberal (responding to another commenter): The lie I’m referring to just happened and affected the lives of the other 16 million Americans that were expecting a vaccine based on our President’s promises. Who knows how many lives would have been saved had Trump fulfilled his pledge to the American people.
Rebane: Your question, “Who knows how many lives would have been saved had Trump fulfilled his pledge to the American people.” ranges from being baseless to totally illogical. There is nothing anyone could have done or would have done differently based on Trump’s hopeful schedule, which BTW he did not historically miss by much. No one was basing life/death decisions on Trump’s prognostication (not a lie intended to deceive). If you want to put a metric on a politician’s statement being a lie or not, use the decisions among the electorate that it may reasonably invoke. If those decisions taken were harmful to the people, then you MAY have a case to make about lies, if not then simple ignorance or bravura would serve. But those considerations are not germane to the points you want to make.
Liberal: What should Trump say to the 16 million Americans who didn’t get a vaccination because Trump lied?
Rebane: What again is the reason for bringing some “16 million” who supposedly didn’t get a shot because “Trump lied”????? Where is there any reason or logic behind such a question?
Liberal: Trump promised 20 million vaccinations by December. I assume we can agree on that. He only delivered 4 million therefore 16 million didn’t get the Trump promised vaccine.
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So there you have it. For the sake of argument, let’s not quibble about whether, when, or how President Trump may have made his ‘20 million vaccinations’ statement. Let’s just accept it as a plausible given that occurred during the course of Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a program already promising an historically early release of at least one vaccine before the end of 2020. As every well-read American knows, part of OWS was the administration’s use of the military’s logistic resources to implement a plan to rapidly distribute the vaccine(s) to the states responsible for internal redistributions and actual inoculations. And as every well-read American also knows, this first-ever effort was accomplished again with historical success.
And lastly, as every well-read American knows, these Trump administration successes were anathema to the Democrats during an election year. All of which caused the already established and smooth-running Pravda-propaganda machinery to shift into high gear and report to the contrary almost every aspect of the ongoing milestone achievement.
So, in this context, we come back to our liberal commenter sporting a knowledge base on the matter obviously gleaned only from lamestream outlets. But no matter, it is his logic that is in question here. From the above comment thread it is clear that he somehow considers that there were 16M Americans who, pursuant to Trump’s 20M vaccinations statement, had made material plans to conduct their post-vaccination lives with the full expectation that they would be members of the fortunate 20M-member cohort.
That anyone would form a picture of how such a specific 20M-cohort, out of a population of 330M, would come to such a hopeful and fortunate conclusion is beyond any reasonable person’s ken. And then our liberal logician implies, from out of the subsequently 16M left-out unfortunates there had to be some of them who contracted C19 and then died, that these deaths were now unquestionably on Trump’s shoulders. Had he been prescient (or not perfidious) about the actual 4M inoculations realized, then miraculously, these deaths among the denied 16M would have been prevented.
Such mind-boggling machinations go on daily in millions of leftwinger minds. It is their brains’ abilities to support such ‘reasoning’ that also contributes to the long list of fictions they harbor about how humans behave ethically, culturally, and in the marketplace. (The most visible evidence of this is their unquestioning embrace of collectivist ideologies – e.g. socialism, communism, …) Therefore, in these pages there has never been an attempt to convince liberals of the nature of their follies, but simply to point them out so that perhaps the independent minded readers may benefit, and avoid a life-altering infection that is clinically visible with modern brain-imaging systems. (more here)
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