WHEN THE RIGHT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF LOGIC: Which is often.

     There was a post on Facebook's Donald Trump is Hated, attempting to defend our embarrassment-in-chief. The post was attributed to a fellow named Trey Arcanum (Where do they get these names?). Irony: arcane implies, understood by few. A mysterious secret. The post read: Liberal logic at its best...they want "natural selection"... they worship Darwin...this is your utopia Dems. #COVID 19.
     Where do I start? Logic: reasoning conducted according to strict principles of validity. By this definition there is no reason to claim that natural selection is illogical. Natural selection is understood by most of us as a theory: a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained, i.e. Darwins Theory of Evolution. Most people, especially republicans and religious zealots (I know, unnecessary duplication), do not know that a theory begins with a hypotheses (a supposition), which is tested from independent sources, using blind testing. The end result is a theory, until that theory is disproven. I could say with some degree of confidence that Mr Arcanum and his kind (type) don't know squat. That would be a logical assumption, not a theory. Natural selection has not been disproven for the 250 odd years since it was published. It has been opposed, often violently, by religious zealots who are stuck on a belief that cannot logically be called anything but a belief.
    We don't, as Mr. Arcanum claims "worship" Darwin. We respect him and the scientific principles he gave us, in spite of threats on his life and his family's lives. We liberals may not know any more about science than Mr Arcanum, but we don't presume to know enough to criticize said science. Some of us worship in the various religious institutions found throughout the world, some of us do not worship. Respecting science is not worship. 
     As for Utopia, the trump administration has become the dystopia that the Republican party has been pushing for since the Christian zealots teamed up with white racism to make the GOP the predominant party in states where education is not respected, unless it's done in a private school run by a church, where black children are excluded. Covid19 could have been mitigated in this country if Trump had not disbanded the Pandemic Response Team at the NSC. It did not help that he turned down a Covid 19 test from the UN that has helped such countries as South Korea limit the damage. This is a logical assumption, not a theory, but it is logical. Mr Arcanum, like the man he appears to worship (Donald Trump), seems to be unable to understand the things they should understand better. They would appear less stupid if they Googled stuff before they wrote it down.

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