It is pointless to insist that Democrats have not in fact unleashed weather weapons on Florida and the Carolinas; even more pointless to argue that if Democrats had such weather weapons they would have used them when Donald Trump was President in order to discredit him. Whether it is factually true that Democrats have and deploy weather weapons could not be more irrelevant; what matters is that this is the kind of thing we say about Democrats — so if you want to be part of this “we,” you’d better say it too.
Source: Rorty’s bastard children – The Homebound Symphony by Alan Jacobs
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Alan Jacobs argues that the current situation, where we no longer speak in declaritive statements, but rather in language that creates solidarity, represents the bastard of Richard Rorty’s ideas on pragmatism, where the focus was on “building a new, more just, more generous society.”