> I don't care who you voted for, this should make every American really, really mad.
There exists a certain group of people that think private sector and The Market™ should handle many/most/all things. Do you want to guess which political party those people tend to associate with?
Also, should we be more or less mad about this than someone trying to overturn fair elections like is happening now? Do you want to guess which political party is trying to do that? Do you want to guess if it's the same political party which believes in The Market™?
So you may not think it matters who people voted for, and that this should be a universal feeling… but that's not what reality is. Do you know what other things should have universal consensus?
First, there's no way to compare the election stuff with this weather thing. Sometimes different things happen at the same time for different reasons.
>There exists a certain group of people that think private sector and The Market™ should handle many/most/all things
I think the Accuweather problem is worse, much worse. What has happened is that NOAA & NWS had been happily supplying data to..whoever..when some people decided to create a commercial service with the same data. Then they hired disgraced Jesus-freak Santorum to play lobbyist and try to kill the NOAA/NWS public services. Note that Accuweather is not going to fly their own satelites, they just want you to be locked out.[1]
That's right: if a private company decides to commercialize something the government is already doing, using the same government services that that government function is using, then the government should stop doing the thing and let the private company have the market.[2][3] This is a continuation of the Republican principle of privatizing profits and socializing risk, as well as colonizing publicly-funded resources.
There exists a certain group of people that think private sector and The Market™ should handle many/most/all things. Do you want to guess which political party those people tend to associate with?
Also, should we be more or less mad about this than someone trying to overturn fair elections like is happening now? Do you want to guess which political party is trying to do that? Do you want to guess if it's the same political party which believes in The Market™?
So you may not think it matters who people voted for, and that this should be a universal feeling… but that's not what reality is. Do you know what other things should have universal consensus?
* Taking a pandemic seriously.
* Climate change.