{"id":29541,"date":"2020-12-17T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=29541"},"modified":"2020-12-17T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:17:49","slug":"the-dr-jill-biden-stories-are-preparing-americans-for-her-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/17\/the-dr-jill-biden-stories-are-preparing-americans-for-her-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dr. Jill Biden stories are preparing Americans for her rule?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A big selling point for the Democrats is the assertion that elite technocratic rule yields superior results compared to rule by ordinary folks. Democrats #FollowScience by citing experts with credentials while Republicans cite common sense. A Republican, for example, might remember “Rising Obesity in the United States Is a Public Health Crisis”<\/a> (2018; “Obesity accounts for 18 percent of deaths among Americans ages 40 to 85…”) and conclude that denying children a year of gym class, making it illegal for kids to run around together, locking down adults next to their refrigerators (15 lb. weight gain typical<\/a>), and shutting down activities that resulted in a few thousand steps per day of incidental walking would kill far more people than could conceivably be saved via a lockdown. The uncredentialed Republican wouldn’t need to try to run a calculation of lost life-years<\/a>, but simply look around at obese neighbors and say “parking these folks next to the fridge for a year is the worst idea ever.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ed.D that Jill Biden obtained is a credential “for certified teachers already possessing master\u2019s degrees who seek to become administrators.” (maryville.edu<\/a>) The master’s degrees themselves are worthless in terms of improving teaching ability and outcomes (Washington Monthly<\/a>; Baltimore Sun<\/a>; CPRE<\/a>: “on average, master’s degrees in education bear no relation to student achievement”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why would Mx. Biden insist on being called “Dr.”? He\/she\/ze\/they would not be referred to as Dr. under the conventional American newspaper style guide (MDs who support Donald Trump aren’t “Dr.” either; e.g., see this 2018 NYT article<\/a> in which Ben Carson, MD, a neurosurgeon, is referred to as “Mr. Carson”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if the answer is that faithful Democrats are being prepared for Jill Biden’s rule? In order to be a legitimate ruler in Democrat voters’ eyes, she needs some sort of technocratic expertise and the Ed.D credential is a demonstration of that. “Smart enough to have sex with a married Congressman”<\/a> is not an obvious qualification for managing a $5 trillion enterprise. With the EdD highlighted, American Democrats can feel comfortable being governed by a senile Joe Biden following Dr. Biden’s science-informed instructions. Joe won’t have to yield to President Harris, but can instead govern in the same sense that Woodrow Wilson governed following his stroke (see “When a secret president ran the country”<\/a> (PBS)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From March 2020, the factory of future primary care non-EdD “doctors” for the “underserved” (that’s what the M3s say that they’re planning to do; where the U.S. finds plastic surgeons and dermatologists is a mystery).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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