[CardinalSagehen]

BTW, in politics, any statement that begins with "both sides" is probably half wrong.

Because, of course, the only side that is EVER right is burger's side.

That's just science...

The idea that both political parties are equally bad and that the true answer to our problems lies in the Aristotelian golden mean between them is facile and specious.  It has poisoned our politics and made the country cynical.

Thanks for the personal attack, though.  Really elevated the discussion.

I do not ascribe to that idea. If you must know, I think the federal response has been abysmally, atrociously, embarrassingly bad.  

But we are talking about a specific issue here, and I do not have to like everything that all leaders in my own party have said or done. Cuomo in particular has struck me as slow-on-the-uptake. Perhaps it was academic and nit-picky, but he also rubbed me the wrong way with his self-righteous refusal to quantify the cost of saving lives. 

This crisis has left me with the overarching, sinking feeling that our system and leaders are poorly equipped to deal with highly quantitative, scientific problems. Hyper-politicization of the issues is one of the very problems that we face.

[CardinalSagehen]

BTW, in politics, any statement that begins with "both sides" is probably half wrong.

Because, of course, the only side that is EVER right is burger's side.

That's just science...

The idea that both political parties are equally bad and that the true answer to our problems lies in the Aristotelian golden mean between them is facile and specious.  It has poisoned our politics and made the country cynical.

Thanks for the personal attack, though.  Really elevated the discussion.

I do not ascribe to that idea. If you must know, I think the federal response has been abysmally, atrociously, embarrassingly bad.  

But we are talking about a specific issue here, and I do not have to like everything that all leaders in my own party have said or done. Cuomo in particular has struck me as slow-on-the-uptake. Perhaps it was academic and nit-picky, but he also rubbed me the wrong way with his self-righteous refusal to quantify the cost of saving lives. 

This crisis has left me with the overarching, sinking feeling that our system and leaders are poorly equipped to deal with highly quantitative, scientific problems. Hyper-politicization of the issues is one of the very problems that we face.