Is it too early to point out how flawed

[Sewa]

the republican - libertarian philosophy of government is? Their philosophy of a small decentralized federal government fails during a national crisis. Or should we wait until the emergency is over to point this out?

[rainy]

1. No it's the perfect time!

[Sewa]

7. So it isn't in bad taste for a liberal to the politicize

this national health emergency. Thanks

[thucythucy]

9. The Republicans in general and Trump in particular

have politicized everything from gun control to climate change to immigration. They have politicized basic science, treating the search for objective facts (needed to form effective policy) as a left wing conspiracy. Eliminating the pandemic response team appointed under President Obama was an act of pure politicization. For the GOP, ideology trumps science and objective reality. That stance is "politicizing" in the extreme.

And if a Democratic administration had reacted to a crisis of this magnitude with such appalling incompetence do you think the GOP would refrain from "politicizing" the issue? Do you think they'd wait until all the dead were buried before hurling political bombshells?

Pointing out this administration's abysmal incoherence in the face of this crisis is absolutely necessary for our survival as a democratic polity. And this level of callous incompetence and arrogant wrong-headed ignorance can't be papered over in the name of "good taste" if we aren't to repeat this sort of travesty time and again.

[crickets]

10. *standing ovation*

[elleng]

2. Too late.

[Flaleftist]

3. People can see what happens with the GOP in charge who want to drown the government in a bathtub.

[fierywoman]

4. Learn from the Parkland students, talk about it now, and call out the BS.

[JHB]

5. Is it 1977? Then no, it's not too early. It's way too late it you're just starting now.

However, better late than never.

[Sewa]

6. I was too busy partying in '77

Didn’t pay much attention to politics then.

[Hoyt]

8. Our government certainly failed under trump. Obama's era went relatively well.