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Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already has gravely damaged the United States at home and around the world. He has abused the power of his office and denied the legitimacy of his political opponents, shattering the norms that have bound the nation together for generations. He has subsumed the public interest to the profitability of his business and political interests. He has shown a breathtaking disregard for the lives and liberties of Americans. He is a man unworthy of the office he holds. | Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already has gravely damaged the United States at home and around the world. He has abused the power of his office and denied the legitimacy of his political opponents, shattering the norms that have bound the nation together for generations. He has subsumed the public interest to the profitability of his business and political interests. He has shown a breathtaking disregard for the lives and liberties of Americans. He is a man unworthy of the office he holds. | ||
||[[File:Time Misinformation (1).jpg|left|thumb|[https://time.com/5897887/swing-states-2020-election/?fbclid=IwAR176LNRELelkfdU3BQCfGL54zmHU2GCk0E0Q70vh66qub0DO5j14AyoPBY TIME BY CHARLOTTE ALTER OCTOBER 8, 2020]]] '''How a Road Trip Through America's Battlegrounds Revealed a Nation Plagued by Misinformation''' | |||
But there was a darker strain. For every two people who offered a rational and informed reason for why they were supporting Biden or Trump, there was another–almost always a Trump supporter–who offered an explanation divorced from reality. You could call this persistent style of untethered reasoning “unlogic.” Unlogic is not ignorance or stupidity; it is reason distorted by suspicion and misinformation, an Orwellian state of mind that arranges itself around convenient fictions rather than established facts. | |||
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|[[File:US Vote.png| | |[[File:US Vote.png|center|thumb|[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/2020-voting-guide.html A Completely Comprehensive Voting Guide]]]||[[File:McKibben ClimateCrisis.jpg|left|thumb|[https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-have-we-learned-in-thirty-years-of-covering-climate-change What Have We Learned in Thirty Years of Covering Climate Change?]]]||[[File:30x30.png|left|thumb|[https://norcalpublicmedia.org/capital-public-radio-latest-news-rss/newsom-s-new-climate-plan-protect-land-and-oceans-sequester-carbon Newsom’s New Climate Plan: Protect Land and Oceans, Sequester Carbon][https://news.yahoo.com/britain-canada-eu-throw-weight-134708287.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAABwJVJF1LNzdaHSTJyy_pjxDhYmA0694r5oEZ9IKcy-vctLaXLwGMTmoCo1bqzm-9L-RWovP-tjQLN0_U5c4CrO4aoHZe2JpgVjF-pAqie8mMp0QOsemwd2Ob9gNJrUN2ixefIlL43KbisSDaZcIdXFyJwA6yhCdg2U7Hzd5n0j&guccounter=1 Britain, Canada, EU throw weight behind 2030 biodiversity protection goal]]] | ||
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 Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already has gravely damaged the United States at home and around the world. He has abused the power of his office and denied the legitimacy of his political opponents, shattering the norms that have bound the nation together for generations. He has subsumed the public interest to the profitability of his business and political interests. He has shown a breathtaking disregard for the lives and liberties of Americans. He is a man unworthy of the office he holds. |
.jpg) But there was a darker strain. For every two people who offered a rational and informed reason for why they were supporting Biden or Trump, there was another–almost always a Trump supporter–who offered an explanation divorced from reality. You could call this persistent style of untethered reasoning “unlogic.” Unlogic is not ignorance or stupidity; it is reason distorted by suspicion and misinformation, an Orwellian state of mind that arranges itself around convenient fictions rather than established facts. | |
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