Covid-19 III: Politics

When a disease is at risk, it seems irrational to politter the threat by a political party. But that happened during Covid-19 times. A reason is that Americans seem very polarized; This is greater than reality. Although Americans agree, there is a great deal of consensus on many issues. Therefore, political parties must manufacture the conflict they can achieve points. Because a threat creates hard emotions, it may be ideal for politics for a party to go to emotions and manipulate its advantage. Taking a threat can also be serious in front of some interests and will try to avoid that by politics. If successful, they can hire voters and protect policies that endanger these voters. Thus, a political party can have two excellent reasons for politicing universal threat: to serve the interests of achieving political points and to maintain the threat.

Politization can be effective in dissolving emotions and reasoning. There are a lot of falls (thinking of the group) and eat and feed ideologies and nourish the cognitive bias (e.g., group bias). If you are liberal, you probably thought the Republican policy of climate change. If you are a conservative, you might think about the sins of Democrats. If so, you can see how it can be created in the conflict party lines.

Covid-19 virus presents a threat to all, but it was politized. Initially the Trump Administration decreased the virus and denounced the Democrats to attack Trump attack and Trump is a Hoax that hurts himself. The advantages of politening the virus were to maintain such markets through ignorance, allowing business to continue as usual mode and expect that the virus will not reach after 2020 election. Political points also entered against Demokrates, accusing Trump hurt by threatening viruses.

From the point of view of the Republic, the Democrats were cunning, making trumpy things to harm Trump and interfere with efforts. In their view, the Democrats were manufacturing conflict; First creating a virus hoax and then interfering with the efforts to deal with Trump virus. How it is seen, of course, tends to shake across ideological lines, politicizes the issue of politics.

As mentioned above, the political points can be rated by politicianing objective threat, has negative consequences. It is obvious that time and resources fight against political struggle, rather than a threat to all. Another conclusion is that manufacturing conflict requires this misinformation, so that misleading people can have lasting consequences. In the case of virus, Fox News and White House changed their position to join reality, they are still established, for a sustainable perspective, whether a virus is a hoax or not very serious.

Some Republicans want to blame Democrats; The ordinary narrative is to blame their efforts partially the crisis of the virus. As expected, one’s ideological lens determines how this topic sees: Trump and Fox news as virus or democrats distracted the virus as a villain who distracted the virus as a villain.

There are three solutions to damage caused by this type of politization. The first is that politicians must judge and hold before they work in a crisis policy. The problem is that it is seen as a useful political tool. That being the case, the politicians are challenged to use a good trial and exercise maintaining exercise. The second solution is that voters can help candidates with a greater chance of increasing judgment and restriction. The third, decide how voters respond also. If they have faced an effort to politter the non-partisan crisis, then politicians’ efforts would be able to succeed.

A concern is that the load of politics can be used, ironically, to politter and silk criticism. For example, the facts show that the initial handling of the Trump crisis was terrible and made false claims about the virus and situation. Therefore, legitimate criticism of these failures were not political. But if critics are democrats or liberal, politics were accused. To cope with this problem, critics must pay attention to events and excessive politically reveals. This will be a challenge, as the other party accepts legitimate and reasonable criticism and claim that unfairly policy. Therefore, the U.S. polarization manufacturer served by Festus has made significant damage in America. As to expect it. In the absence of this, the new crises will repeat the harmful policy of the Covid-19 crisis.