Claim
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Today, it is often comedians who
claim
to speak truth to power – and to the public.
First, as the skeptics warned, when hordes of pundits are jostling for the limelight, many are tempted to
claim
that they know more than they do.
Some Trump voters
claim
that they were driven by “common sense,” and that what appealed to them was his message of “prosperity and reducing the debt,” together with “a strong military and reforming immigration.”
But it will be used as a cudgel by those who
claim
that electric cars or solar panels – technologies that will make only a marginal contribution, given their huge incremental costs – are the solution to climate change.
There is nothing surprising about this: When a decision-maker can
claim
full credit for a policy’s benefits and collectivize the costs, he will pursue the policy sooner, more quickly, and to a larger extent than he would if he had to bear the costs alone.
Indonesia’s
claim
that NAMRU-2 is a biological weapons facility must be confronted head-on.
Even those who
claim
to represent the Left avoid mentioning inequality and do not offer the excluded, like my neighbor, any reason to hope.
I can
claim
credit for modest successes, but Ghana needs more than modest successes.
Observers who
claim
that Europe is now split between a liberal-democratic West and an East where deeply illiberal electorates have brought populists to power make the same mistake of explaining all political outcomes in terms of culture.
The US Supreme Court’s 2013 decision that naturally occurring genes cannot be patented has provided a test of whether patents stimulate research and innovation, as advocates claim, or impede it, by restricting access to knowledge.
The deal is also, in the eyes of Israelis, a badge of honor for their res publica – their Periclean democracy’s
claim
to the moral high ground in an autocratic neighborhood.
Second, the government has exploited this confusion of issues to
claim
a mandate to do anything it wants.
But the Republican strategy has long been to
claim
that the climate is not changing or that any change has nothing to do with people and their cars, factories, and power plants.
This is the strategy that begins to emerge as a form of government: deny there is a problem (despite the facts), cut funding for politically inexpedient research, and
claim
that all outcomes are rosy.
And, on the bottom board of transnational issues outside the control of governments – including everything from climate change to pandemics to transnational terrorism – power is chaotically distributed, and it makes no sense at all to
claim
American hegemony.
The notion that a dictator can
claim
the sovereign right to abuse his people has become unacceptable.
And Trump and congressional Republicans have been presiding over a relatively strong economy, which they inherited from former President Barack Obama, but are happy to
claim
as their own.
Yet today we have perhaps a thousand religions that all
claim
to be Islam.
Only then can it legitimately
claim
to be pursuing a “united and strong Africa.”
The secessionists hark back to eighteenth-century English brutality and
claim
that Scotland will be able to keep all of its North Sea oil and shed its share of the UK’s debt.
A tax is a quasi-equity
claim
of the government on its citizens’ financial expectations.
These authoritarian regimes must reform themselves at home if they are to exert any kind of moral
claim
abroad.
They drive people to avenge terrible misdeeds, saying: “We
claim
we represent true justice….Blood avengers, always in pursuit, we chase them to the end.”
The child bomber – who, witnesses claim, was unaware that she was carrying explosives at all – was sent by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
Immigration and trade, they claim, are the cause of citizens’ economic insecurity.
The Prague Spring was provoked by a crisis in the Communist Party, but the
claim
that it was merely a result of political squabbles among Party members falsifies history and rejects a significant fragment of the national heritage.
Imre Nagy, the leader of the Hungarian revolt in 1956, and Dubcek became parts of their national legends, which belies the
claim
that communism was exclusively a foreign imposition.
Just this month, one of Netanyahu’s shamelessly incendiary statements – the
claim
that Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, gave Adolf Hitler the idea of annihilating Europe’s Jews during World War II – sparked a media firestorm.
They
claim
that Jews must frequent the holy site, and even build a temple, to strengthen Israel’s sovereignty there.
And yet one man, the American former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, has shown how far removed from reality that
claim
remains.
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