The Modern Left and the Problem of Proportion - AFNN

The Modern Left and the Problem of Proportion - AFNN -  John F. Di Leo

"...But at least in the past we could convince ourselves that both sides’ views were reasonable, that they were legitimate options for their time and place...
This is no longer the case...
For example:

...Barack Obama announced that his administration would be pushing for projects to derive energy from algae, as if this was some brilliant and worthy scientific advancement.
Barack Obama presented it as if it was a great discovery, and we never knew that we could obtain energy from algae before....
There isn’t enough algae in the world for this to be worth the bother. Anyone with sense can see that...
Sure enough, their base ate it up. The fundamental flaw was invisible to them.

Since then, we have seen countless other examples:

• Masks to stop a virus hundreds of times smaller than the spaces in the mask.
• Vaccines that were tested on a sample size so small they were, for all intents and purposes, untested.
• A one-time stimulus check to make up for high gas prices, when the stimulus check is less than a fifth of the increased annual fuel cost the people are suffering.
• Celebrating job creation stats when the new jobs are lower-paying and with less advancement opportunity than the old jobs that are always disappearing...