Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and a whole host of conspiracy theorists are claiming the hurricane was planned in order to harm Republicans. Climate experts tell WIRED that’s impossible.
I don’t know how many of these people are actively pushing this for that specific purpose, but the thinking here is definitely medieval. It’s the old human desire to make sense if events bigger than ourselves and grant ourselves some illusion of power over them and our own fate. In the past it you might have explained a hurricane by saying it’s the divine judgement of Zeus/Odin/Indra/____; now it manifests by blaming it all on democrats. The old way was more entertaining.
It’s that, but mostly it’s the same move as the tobacco guys: delay as much as possible, sow fear, uncertainty, doubt, maximize every penny you can from the stock returns and buybacks, and when the enemy finally triumphs, demand compensation.
I don’t know how many of these people are actively pushing this for that specific purpose, but the thinking here is definitely medieval. It’s the old human desire to make sense if events bigger than ourselves and grant ourselves some illusion of power over them and our own fate. In the past it you might have explained a hurricane by saying it’s the divine judgement of Zeus/Odin/Indra/____; now it manifests by blaming it all on democrats. The old way was more entertaining.
So what you are saying here, is reps are afraid of the dems, because the reps have god-like powers.
Well if they believe that, it would be a reasonable fear.
It’s that, but mostly it’s the same move as the tobacco guys: delay as much as possible, sow fear, uncertainty, doubt, maximize every penny you can from the stock returns and buybacks, and when the enemy finally triumphs, demand compensation.