Everything’s on topic. Practically every American sees this hypocrisy.
But the lefties are correct, proof is important.
That's where math comes in.
Math lets us translate intuitions into equations.
For example - look at the two F curves I posted. Take a postcard or business card, and cover up the F portion of the curve on the right. NOW what do you see?
Look at the blue line relative to the red. What you see there is called a TREND (same vocabulary as the stock market, because we're dealing with a time series). TRENDS can be quantified (wall street is expert at quantifying trends).
You see the blue line and the red line diverging by increasing amounts. DIVERGENCE can also be quantified, quite handsomely using Renyi entropy and other information theoretic means.
Once we have a model of the generators and moments, we can use math to figure out the LIKELIHOOD of the F portion of the curve. How likely is it that such an event will occur, given what we know about the trends?
My question to you, and Kaz, and all the doubters is this: have you ever seen such an analysis?
No, I don't think you have. (If you have, please point us to it).
Because the powers that be are deliberately obfuscating this discussion and leading us away from the answers.