Your fallacy of choice is
False Balance, hope that helps.
No, it's not, at all. Balance is not part of this argument. I, personally, don't care about balance. Others here are making ad hominem arguments (ad hominem has little to do with name calling, BTW). The argument others make here, that we should tolerate politician A and not politician B, is based on whether they happen to be republican or democrat. Party affiliation is a way to describe an individual, but has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Essentialism is a nice thought experiment, but in the end, it gets nothing done.
This argument I'm making is simple... we give people power and money to run the government effectively. To do that, they need to avoid things like half a million dead Americans. They also need to distribute vaccines, that we already paid for, in a reasonable manner, to end the crisis as efficiently as possible. They failed. All of them failed. So they need to be removed.
I propose we treat government officials the way Bezos treats people in his work houses. If a line worker does not perform, they get thrown out in the street. If the manager doesn't make them perform, they get thrown out on the street, too. Anybody who does not pull their weight gets thrown out.
I'm not asking for anything insane. The ask is extremely reasonable. The database of the locations and delivery status of all vaccines absolutely exists. You think the technocrats who run the American medical oligarchy don't track every little detail of logistical data that touches their institutions? No way. They have it. All I'm saying is put a public, free API on that database, so we know where the vaccines are, and then build a central sign up sheet for it, where our sign ups get routed to vaccine distribution sites. That could be done in days. The only reason why it's not done is that there is no political will on the state and federal levels.
There is no will because we, as constituents, have not communicated clearly enough that we are tired of being hospitalized, bankrupted, and killed by this pandemic. We need to put the fear of god into these politicians. If they aren't panicking, they aren't listening to us. You seem to think that we have more power than we do. As constituents, we can't line item review every bill. We elect officials to do that for us. In other words, the levers of power we have access to are big, clunky levers, that only seem to respond to big emotions, like anger. Angry gets shit done.
was born for this!
