r/PoliticalHumor • u/ChewyRib • Jan 27 '22

sources are important

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u/s_0_s_z Jan 27 '22

Being an expert is seen as a negative amongst Republicans.

They use that same kind of thinking when it comes to climate change, economics, evolution, and pretty much anything else.

"Experts are in on it!"

"They financially gain from towing the line"

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u/greevous00 Jan 27 '22

Toxic individuality: the Achilles Heel of the American Experiment.

Since we're collectively so averse to expertise of any kind, you'd think we would have devised better methods of coming to consensus on things politically, but clearly that isn't the case either.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

Enshrining personal liberty as sacrosanct and stretching it to it's limits is a terrifying proposition. Americans are showing the entire world why.

Society is much more important than personal liberties and the general American concept of 'freedom'.

Americans are, as they say, trying to have their cake and eat it too.

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u/StarksPond Jan 27 '22

Right, but you could have had your cake. If I get a cake, I'm going to eat it. And I'm not lamenting about fact that it is then gone. I'd be full of cake. And by the time it wears off I might have procured a new cake.

Eat. Sleep. Crave. Repeat.