Robert Heinlein said to never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I am beginning to wonder if stupidity is an adequate explanation.
What i’ll say now doesn’t seem to pertain to this story but i could be wrong.
Our politicians are so wrapped up in their special little worlds with their special little constituencies with every last thing they do geared towards being voted back in that they never or at least rarely look at the larger picture. Even when they see it its twisted and turned into more vote getting.
And now with proper time to think it over,of course the story can be explained by this.