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Dan Patrick shows In a nutshell all of the traits that make him and the rest of the Republican Party so unfit to govern:

- Seeing a solution as being a choice between two (and only two) options.

- Unable and/or utter unwilling to understand anything at more than at a surface level (So solutions are simplistic and consequences are never considered. “We do this and all will be rosy.”)

- Putting businesses and the rich above all other considerations. Priority one is, always is, making sure that nothing bad ever happens to them. It’s a belief so ingrained that they can’t even see it.

Tell them there are individual people who desperately need help, they’ll reply, “Oh, well we help them by bailing out businesses.”

Point out the people will be helped far more if they’re helped directly, they will insist that’s what they’re doing by providing the help indirectly to businesses.

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” ... has opposed local paid sick leave ordinances, which could encourage sick people to stay home and keep from spreading the virus, saying they hamper business growth…”

Because nothing, NOTHING, is more important than growing the business.

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