Your spidey senses are correct. I’m presently deeply biased against just about every policy being advanced by the Democrats, as I am against their deep history of objectively bad policy.
Bias isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Im biased against their numerous failed policies.
I’m biased against chopping off my own dick, but plenty of other people are giving it a try in 2021.
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But it almost always is. Intuition and rationality can be skewed if one is biased and faced with a logistical dilemma. Biased clinical data lead to a set outcome of which may be inferior, as a matter of fact biased data (industry funded research) is the reason it took doctors so long to figure out “tobacco causes cancer and heart disease”.
This can be broadly applied to biased data regarding policy implementation (and defunding of the police, mass incarceration and the likes). A flawed, illogical narrative leads to policy enactment of which is detrimental to the public.
Bias against prior failed policies doesn’t correlate with the type of bias I’m talking about here. If a policy has been a blatant failure, then disliking said policy isn’t really a “bias” is it? I’m referring to say… The instantaneous dismissal of all future policies/discourse on the basis of “but he’s a Democrat!”. Or when one is very quick to jump the gun and blame democrats/Republicans for X, Y or Z when political affiliation may have nothing to do with the issue at hand.
You’re wrong.
Right now is a time to be deeply biased against the Democrats. You’re speaking as if there is some unsettled academic debate going on about policies like police defunding, border policy, foreign policy, military policy, homeless policy, media policy and gun policy.
There’s not, not with honest actors anyway. Just a collection of woke know-nothings trying to explain away decades of bad policy outcomes by shouting “racism”.
You’re arguing that I ought to be neutral in present and future positions of the party of slavery, Jim Crow, race-baiting, urban decay, fiscal insanity, nationwide rioting and the re-racialization of American society.
No thanks, I’ll keep my bias. I’m not stupid or sociopathic. It doesn’t require an Oracle to see where those policies will lead or the clear impacts we are already living with.
@twojarslave - I just started reading Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng. My mom’s had it on a bookshelf for my entire life, never picked it up till now. I’m only 50 or so pages into it, but I think you’d maybe find it interesting. Not sure how big of a reader you are, but I’m not that smart and I’m finding it easy to read.
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I haven’t, although I remember the name of the book from my childhood. It sounds interesting and increasingly pertinent today. I’ll add it to the list.
It’s funny that no matter how many first hand accounts get written, no matter how many people go poor and hungry, no matter how disastrous the outcomes are, there are always leftists who argue that the reason for the bad outcomes was insufficient leftism.
I could excuse a communist from 100 years ago. I might have even been one. No matter how they brand themselves today, modern leftists remain uninterested in historical outcomes or even the present day outcomes. There’s really no excuse for radical leftism at this point besides ignorance, letting emotions rule your thought, low intelligence, sociopathy or some combination thereof.
When you’re done learning about The Red Guard give The Gulag Archipelago a try.
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I think we are thinking of the word “bias” differently.
You are anti democrat, pro Republican; thus your interpretation of bias appears to equate to disliking democrat mediated policy. With that being said, you have reason to dislike the policies you speak of. I may not agree with you 30% of the time, but this doesn’t equate to me dismissing your vested beliefs as they do have validity behind them.
The virtue signalling/excessive use of the “race card” is one of the most irritating aspects of the left wing today, though I’d argue this pertains to the far/“woke” left of which encompasses a considerably different paradigm to those who may be split down the middle with a slight lean towards the left such as myself.
My interpretation of bias is to COMPLETELY and utterly dismiss anything a Democrat has to say… Because he/she is a Democrat, the user with said bias is unable to grasp a clear picture due to logical fallacies pertaining to his/her bias. He/she can’t comprehend any information that may point towards a singular pro democrat policy (i.e combatting climate change, reduce fracking etc) due to extensive bias and inability to reason due to extensive prejudice and favouritism.
At this point I wouldn’t consider someone pro Republican or pro democrat, I’d consider them a biased zealot.
I identify with and agree with major policies preached by both democratic and Republican politicians, though I can’t get behind “pro life”, “defund the police”, “eliminate the prospect of public healthcare” narratives. It seems as if many on equate democrat to be akin to Bernie Sanders level leftism… I’d argue I’m probably closer to the average democrat. There are probably instances wherein I’d even vote Republican depending on the candidate
No, not really. I’m just arguing that it’s good at times, you’re saying…
Not so much pro Republican, as I’ve never been a member of that party. I’m very much anti-democrat.
I find this interesting because you’re taking a narrative at face-value without evidence. There is no evidence that a single Democrat policy will do a single thing to combat climate change. Pipelines are shown to be more economical and environmentally friendly than other modes of transport, but let’s not let that get in the way of utopian solutions that people aren’t choosing on their own. The Democrats insist that their radical policies are the only way to save the planet from annihilation without a shred of evidence being presented. That ought to give one pause to begin with…
There is a great deal of evidence that Democrats will eagerly use any crisis in history to gain power and pass self-congratulatory policies that do not work over the long term, all under the pretense of insert superficially compassionate cause here.
That’s how they’ve been successful in the brief interim of the late 20th, early 21st century when they weren’t busy using race to divide us and promising one group the fruits of another group’s labor, which are the closest thing to principles that party holds. The problem is that they’re consistently wrong and the policies consistently backfire. I’m old enough to remember when the science said Florida would now have been underwater for over a decade. It’s a good thing we didn’t sacrifice our economy and livelihoods to listen to those so-called “experts”.
Besides, if we would have evacuated Florida waiting for the 1970’s and 80’s scientists to be proved right, we wouldn’t have had Ron Desantis showing everyone how to run a state during a pandemic.
All major Democrats policies require that people take the stated policy goals at face value and assume good outcomes will follow. The problem is bad outcomes almost always follow, and I don’t see any reason why this round of policy disasters will be any different. Universal healthcare is a perfect example. They want you to imagine a perfect world of unlimited resources where all of the individuals work in unison to achieve great healthcare outcomes for everyone.
My money is on the one outcome government has shown itself able to reliably produce. Shortages. Just like we’re seeing right now across the entire global supply chain. They can even create a labor shortage through the magic of giving people sky money to not work.
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Your problem is your clearly not watching enough CNN.
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This is true for Republicans as well. Example: the war on drugs.
Yep, that’s a great bipartisan example from 50 years ago.
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It’s still affecting us today. Republicans could always back away from it and join the legalize MJ team.
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It’s also a good example of how long it takes government to correct the course, even though MJ decriminalization and treatment over incarceration for non-violent offenders is extremely mainstream opinion among conservatives. I’d say it will be legal nearly everywhere in the US within 10 years.
Whenever a wave of fervor washes over the land and radical policies are suggested as the solution, we ought to take pause before doing what can take a long time to be undone in the likely event of a policy backfire.
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That’s not how you get elected. See Trump and the wall, universal healthcare (his improved version of it), tax cuts (I’m not saying they are necessarily bad but you don’t just cut them without taking into account any negative results.)
None of which was particularly radical or difficult to undo.
What is the point you’re trying to make?
To note, I don’t watch CNN… I watch sky News, they’re very centrist and unbiased (you’re an Aussie so I presume you’ll understand my comical reference).
To my knowledge slightly over 50% of conservatives agree with cannabis legalisation. The legalise weed schtick is another enforced narrative that’s being taken out of hand.
Legalise it, regulate it… Legalise more than weed! But don’t outwardly promote it to the masses like you would alcohol. This is a matter of public health, I’d prefer it if financial incentive were to be afterthought with legalisation.
I think there’s a decent chance it’ll be within the next 2-3 years. I expect Australia to either follow suit 200 years from now or they’ll unsuccessfully attempt go down the path Singapore/Japan has gone down.
It actually looks like the ACT is set to effectively decriminalize possession of… Everything (associate possession with a civil penalty). Whilst the rest of Aus is still stuck in the stone ages
Not an Aussie. I just temporarily reside here. Hopefully for only another nine months. Not that I haven’t enjoyed my stay.
Sky News. I love them. They got real chutzpah. Those fellas over there at Sky News. They just tell it how it is.
All jokes aside. I find it hard to believe they have a large enough base to stay in business. But I do spend most my time in the more urban areas of the Illawarra. I feel like thats all labour country.
Now I did spend some time on the York Peninsula over in SA. Now I have no doubt they watch Sky News.
Universal healthcare isn’t radical, by American standards? And it would be difficult to undo? Tax cuts are not difficult to undo, you just raise them again but the effects of them are hard to undo.
Why are you still staying here?
Europe is opening up, within a few months certain countries may be fully vaccinated. If you can get the Pfizer jab, get it and leave. As it stands there’s probably more interesting experiences to be had overseas. We will be continually locking down for quite some time.
You have more rights than Australian citizens have at the moment.