Thread by @mhbx

Starting a new hashtag to keep track of these #StupidSolutions.

Having made the point that if you will not look at what is in front of you, if you deny reality, you are left with nonsense.
These solutions do not reflect the current knowledge or contexts, thus: Stupid.

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https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1532776987365883904

#StupidSolutions are not like these failures in the early attempts at making an airplane.
In those times they were learning:
Try something, based on some idea or hypothesis
see what happens - experiment
Fail - learn
Try again

That is science. -->

What would be stupid is if they continued to make the same design over and over again expecting it to work differently this time.
Ie, if they did not learn from their experiments and their mistakes.

We look back and find these humorous.
If Boeing were to still be working on

these designs, trying to "perfect" any of these failures they would
a/ be a joke
b/ out of business

Yet this is precisely what these #StupidSolutions being proposed by Grahm, Cruz and, sad to say, Republicans in general are.

Except they are not humorous, but deadly. And...

And destructive, corrosive to the society. Just as such nonsense would fail a business, so such idiotic nonsense fails a country.
It is the central reason why countries fail, from Rome forward, they lose the ability to think, learn, be wise. All of that being clogged by a

dogmatic devotion to principles and purposes that become the reason for a party and faction, rather than the common devotion to knowledge, and wisdom for the general benefit of the commonweal.
(Ref the Preamble Constitution)

No, here on this issue, these "leaders" take up the lunacy by ignoring the actual proximate causes of problems and failures, assigning irrelevant & specious causes, or simply ignoring the causual inquiry & jumping straight to knee jerk #StupidSolutions.

Sadly, the end result of this dogmatic devotion to ignorance is the decomposition of the country as we bifurcate into unbreachable factions, losing our grip, and devotion, to our once common, deep, axiomatic, founding propositions.

We justifiably look back and see the mistakes of history, choices that became the fundamental error that led a people (at all levels, from family to nation) into horrible situations. We know them by name. The easy ones are those choices to go to ill advised wars.
Such moments

and choices change the course of history.

One example in our time is the Iraq War, under GWBush. While some tried to make the obvious point about WMD et al. Those tasked with being wise were not willing to look, and thus governed and made choices based on a horrid concoction of

ego, bad information, a desire to invade - looking for a reason, any reason, even a made up ones...There are many facets to the choices at this level & magnitude.
Get it wrong and it changes everything.

The Iraq war was a #stupidsolution to the causative events. But useful.

So we now have our own choice point. One that has been incubated for a long time.
Another war. In this case on our children, and in a larger frame, all citizens.
Since we have chosen to contort a foundational principle out of all meaning, & then utilize that reworked "amendment"

for other purposes, we are now subject to other consequences.
In this case, a nation riddled with guns. Unmoored from anything like founding principles, not only this 2A one, creating a situation where mass shootings are so commonplace only the most horrible of them are reported.

And our dim witted "Guardians", Senators and Governers among them, the ones we entrust the care and health of the nation to, are unable, unwilling to look; look so as to see; See so as to understand what is happening... and respond accordingly.

No. We get #StupidSolutions like this. Or like arming teachers in the classroom; or creating massive logistical problems by single entry points; or so many other ideas that look exactly like these folks trying to figure out how to fly.
The difference being, we have already

learned those lessons. Or should have.
So we look like the idiot who never seems to learn anything. A 'groundhog day' that never penetrates the consciousness so the issues & causes are finally figured out, however belatedly, and appropriate changes can be implemented.

No. We are treated to the same thin gruel, every single time, and call it "gourmet dinner". Prooffered as the summa bona of their thinking and wisdom on the issues, it is the same nonsense with at best a few new inflections.

And this is how democracies perish.
In the end it is the concretization of nonsense into fundamental values and principles and then defending such to the end.
The fundamental defensive move?
Don't look. Don't see.
If a fact is not acknowledged it does not exist.
So they think.

Such profound, sanctioned ignorace is the driver behind such cancerous nonsense as Qanon, the Trumpism phenomenon, (which is not, by any measure or definition "Conservative") and etc. It is a "flat earth" mentality.

And such a mentality cannot energize or advance a nation. It cannot fulfill our core founding aspiration : To form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility and to promote the general welfare...
If we become unwilling to learn, we become stuck, unable

to adapt to current realities and conditions.
Able only to implement #StupidSolutions to complex problems we end up frustrated and impotent against the corrosive forces. The natural end of that is to become increasingly drastic in the solutions, thinking, for example, that

the only way to resolve the current problem is to revert to the times and solutions of times long gone.

This gives rise to those forces that are powerful and arrayed against liberty and freedom.
Examples are obvious and abound.

We fail to understand Lincoln's great insight and admonition:
That as our times are anew we must think anew. Disenthrall ourselves from the worn out creeds of the past.And then, maybe, will save the country.