"Ignorance is strength" would be the Orwellian take.

‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any’ - Trump on COVID19

We live in a post-factual world [1].

I'm not sure people realize just how dire this is. The politics of the largest, most powerful country on Earth are dominated by people who truly believe in dispensational premillenialism [2]. For these people their time on Earth is limited. Wrecking the Earth doesn't matter. The afterlife is forever. Senior government officials take seriously bringing on the apocalypse through a red heifer [3]. In fact, it's the cornerstone of Christian Zionism [4].

And what began this political movement? Racism [5], specifically a ruling that schools in the South couldn't be both tax-exempt and segregationist.

We live in the dumbest timeline.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkWl7NaGprE

[3]: https://medium.com/@nour_alhakk/the-red-heifer-and-the-u-s-a...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

[5]: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...

The Power of Positive Thinking is one of the few books Donald Trump has really internalized and it shows in his approach to a lot of issues.

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