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Now you all know I am not an American, so please help me out here. The more I consider the protests on state houses cause the evil governor dictators are just like Hitler in the minds of the death cult crowd, the more there is something I do not understand.
I get they are right wing, I get that after 50 years of republicans telling them that they should not trust the agencies of governance that they have brought the cheese, I get that they watch an incitement to death media, I get all of that.
What I do not understand is this
How can they purposefully believe that the governors are doing shut downs as an action of bad faith? Do they really believe that these men and women actively want to bring recession, hardship, destitution, dwindling tax revenue as businesses close, because they want to take away the freedom of their citizens? Really? How can that make sense? Do they not understand that they have modelled all possible outcomes from the decisions that they are making, and shutting down is best possible way to ride out the pandemic? That all other options bring about a worse outcome, both in health and in the economy. Do they really believe that these decisions have been made as some nefarious deep state freedom stealing plot? Really? It literally makes no sense.
gibraltar72
(7,512 posts)The dog whistles set them off. My Governor is under really vile attacks. Being a strong woman doesn't help in that regard.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Yes. Many Republicans believe that Democratic office-holders are evil demons who are not acting in good faith.
Conversely, many Democrats believe that Republican office-holders are evil demons who are not acting in good faith. Sometimes, I feel this way myself.
Were used to this dynamic now. Its been this way for a couple of decades (at least).
-Laelth
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(21,803 posts)ananda
(28,877 posts)They have been told that the people they hate,
not like them, are most vulnerable to the virus.
Ergo ... open everything up. Let them die.
We won't because we're different from them.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)Fucking hell. I hate that that makes sens.
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)Their hate makes them hear things wrongly.
Minorities are dying at a higher rate, is what is said.
They hear "Only black people die from it."
So, they're pleased & think they're invulnerable.