4.6 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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On this solo episode, Dan expands on his recently published oped for The Wall Street Journal to ponder the question, “Why do Democrats want to keep us shutdown and Republicans want us free to reopen?” The answer is part politics, part psychology.
Read the oped here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-does-reopening-polarize-us-11589842995
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0:24.0 | All right, welcome back everybody. |
0:26.0 | I got a solo episode for you today because I want to go into some depth on op-ed. |
0:31.0 | I just released into the Wall Street Journal opinion page titled, |
0:35.0 | Why Does Reopening Polarize Us? |
0:37.0 | The divide over lockdowns reflects deeper differences in attitudes about risk, |
0:41.0 | liberty, and morality. |
0:43.0 | I think this is a pretty interesting topic because I think we've all seen that |
0:47.0 | for some odd reason, the debate over reopening the economy has fallen almost |
0:53.0 | exclusively along political fault lines. |
0:56.0 | And at first glance, that doesn't seem very intuitive. |
0:59.0 | It really shouldn't be that way, but it clearly is. |
1:03.0 | And I outlined a bunch of reasons why that might be. |
1:06.0 | First, I kind of want to prove my case if you don't believe me. |
1:09.0 | I think maybe a lot of regular people out there, Republican or Democrat, |
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