I have been turning this scene, and these words, around in my head for a few weeks.
Fundamentally this is how I see the differences between Republicans and Democrats.
It comes down to empathy and putting the needs of the many above the needs of the few or the one.
Which will not ever happen until that narcissistic jackass con man and cabal (45, McConnell, Barr, Pompeo, DeVos, etc.) are turfed out of office, and prosecuted, and jailed.
Today I noticed the reported number of people who have died in the USA has surpassed the number killed on 9/11. I read that maybe as many as 100,000 people might die, or more, from this virus.
Yet all the Typhoid Mango (thanks to someone on Kos for that name) can do is blather, wave his wee little hands around, and continue to steal money from Americans in many of his ongoing cons and grift schemes.
For a long time I suffered from the Just World Fallacy, explained as:
The belief that we live in a just world, and that the universe just naturally slides toward justice and harmony. That good people never suffer needlessly, and that bad people always get their comeuppance.
The Just World Fallacy makes it super easy to blame victims and assume someone’s success means they must be a good person. It’s also easy to believe conspiracy theories, as those always present human beings thwarting the world’s harmony and justice protocols (and it makes the conspiracy believer feel special and important).
(Explained on The Root in an article by Damon Young, by a commenter, this was new to me as a formal term).
This is also known as the Just World Hypothesis:
The just-world hypothesis or just-world fallacy is the cognitive bias (or assumption) that a person's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, to the end of all noble actions being eventually rewarded and all evil actions eventually punished. In other words, the just-world hypothesis is the tendency to attribute consequences to—or expect consequences as the result of—a universal force that restores moral balance. This belief generally implies the existence of cosmic justice, destiny, divine providence, desert, stability, and/or order, and is often associated with a variety of fundamental fallacies, especially in regard to rationalizing people's suffering on the grounds that they "deserve" it.
The hypothesis popularly appears in the English language in various figures of speech that imply guaranteed negative reprisal, such as: "you got what was coming to you", "what goes around comes around", "chickens come home to roost", "everything happens for a reason", and "you reap what you sow". This hypothesis has been widely studied by social psychologists since Melvin J. Lerner conducted seminal work on the belief in a just world in the early 1960s.[1]Research has continued since then, examining the predictive capacity of the hypothesis in various situations and across cultures, and clarifying and expanding the theoretical understandings of just-world beliefs.[2]
In other words, the world I always hoped to live in (that of Star Trek minus all the war, shooting and killing ships full of Klingons/Romulans/Borg/etc/etc — there was too much violence in many of the series and movies)…. was a world of justice and fairness and a world. in which bad people did suffer for being horrible, and were taught lessons. And became better for it. HAHAHA. WTF was I ever thinking?
45, McConnell, Barr, Pompeo, DeVos, etc. will never get justice they deserve. Hell, it was 12 March when news broke of Bolsonaro and his aide tested positive for this virus and all the people at Mar a Lago too. Well…. it is now 31 March. They have recovered. 45 was never sick. Rand Paul, hahahahaha. Nope, none of the evil people whose only goal in life is more money and more power, will suffer.
Instead, good people with limited access to health care and limited resources will die, have died.
This is mainly a rant. Think of the others, please. We cannot ask the Republicans in power to be brave and sacrifice like Spock. It is not in their nature.