We have yet another example of the conservatives having only short term gain and quick profits on their mind. Turner and the liberals were right when they said that we have been building this country east to west for a century plus, and that we should have continued doing so. And now we are seeing Turner’s predictions coming true, and a conservative sold us the fuck out and took the easy way Instead of nation building.
While I agree with you, it’s tough to get most people to click beyond a headline or open a statistics database for a bunch of easily disprovable commonly held beliefs (aka “common sense”); even if it’s to just start thinking about this stuff (and hopefully eventually apply and cross-check), I still view tools like these as a boon.