03-30-2020, 09:56 AM
(03-30-2020, 08:19 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Here's one of the biggest issues in all of this pandemic. The whole world expects China to behave in the way they did. We shouldn't, but that's par for the course with them. However, up until 2017, the world would not have expected the US to behave in the way we have.
Totally agree with this.
(03-30-2020, 08:19 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: You can say whatever you want about whether or not this would have been as bad in the US with a Clinton administration, those hypotheticals are pointless. What we can say for certain, though, is that the US stepped back from being the global leader it was, and our government's behavior during this pandemic highlights that.
I would not say they are pointless. We can be pretty sure Clinton would have left the CDC alone and kept the pandemic squad on the NSC. And I am pretty sure she would not have made Bolton her national security adviser.
Had Clinton been elected, then
1) we WOULD be behaving the way the world expects us too, and
2) we would have been on the pandemic much earlier and more effectively and,
3) the whole time Trump supporters and Fox would be criticizing Clinton's "mishandling" and claiming decisive billionaire businessman Trump would be doing it all so much better were he president. He would have pushed all the bureaucracy aside and contained it "right away."
I hope many millions understand and consider such "hypotheticals" when they go to vote in November.
Thanks to Vinyl for this great reminder.
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