The fantasy is that most people are rational, they aren’t. Most still believe in the equivalent of fairies and goblins and can be manipulated at will to accept total bullshit.
It’s what global warming denial has been based on from the start, look at Yohe here. He’s not trying to make sense, he’s telling fairy tales that too many people still believe.
Or Rush Limbaugh telling his listeners that a hurricane that had already killed 60 people and did $190 BILLION of damage was fake news created by the leftists. Then told them not to worry about the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic shortly before jumping in his private jet to flee for his life from the approaching monster storm he claimed was a figment of someone’s imagination.
As many as 50 Americans may have died as a result of Irma;
Many in the media are reporting that Hurricane Irma’s U.S. death toll—meaning those who died in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina—was 39. But the correct U.S. number may be as many as 50 or more. That higher figure includes those who died in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose residents are U.S. citizens.Irma also caused billions of dollars in damage across the Caribbean and US. What's going on has nothing to do with reason or facts, it's about power and the ability to wield it. And the people who have wielded it best in the past have quite often been pathological liars, it's where religions and myths come from. sl...