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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy won't media SAY the truth: Republicans are weaponizing COVID to regain power.
I believe that what is REALLY behind all this anti-vaxx and anti-masking bullshit is just that: PREVENT Dems and Biden from making headway on COVID and getting America back to some semblance of normal.
THEN Republicans can, in 2022 and 2024 - after they SABOTAGED Biden Admin efforts to finally end this virus in the US - run for congress and as POTUS on Biden's "failure" to get the virus under control.
They're not ignorant. THEY'RE EVIL.
DO YOU THINK THEY CARE that this is KILLING people? Including children? Because they don't. I guarantee you, they do not. And they still call themselves "pro-life" (conditions apply: pro-life only applies when the fetal tissue is attached to a woman or girl they want to enslave and control). Outside that, all bets are off.
Is there a REASON the goddamned media can't point out that this is likely what is behind all this?
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)their backers, their enablers, and their donors own and/or control nearly all the media.
That's why.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)the bidding of sPUTIN and their reTHUG overlords.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Otherwise they're not going to bring it up.
It's too big of a liability for them.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)But you are correct; the media would need a signed, notarized confession to actually report it.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)I think it's a possibility.
If someone RePuQ tweets out something like 'this COVID mess will help us regain power in 2022', then it becomes something the media can talk about, and I'd imagine they would ... for a few minutes anyway.
You know, however long their algorithms detect clicks and eyeballs.
Truth is, people expect this behavior from Republicans, even a signed notarized confession would, sadly, just lead to a bunch of shrugs and 'yup, that's politics for you'.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)They're evil, but it's not possible they are that stupid (most of the ringleaders are vaxxed).
Could it be that Putin pays per body bag?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)But to entertain these idiots and their fantasy-world bullshit?
Plus some of their 'leaders' are utter morons themselves.
The idea that Russian's are in part behind all these people (all over the world) having these ridiculous views is not that far-fetched to me.
But the 'damage is done' because they're been working on the wingnuts for a year and a half at this point, pumping their propaganda.
The only way I think this changes is when ENOUGH wingnuts see some loved one die, and see with their own eyes that the people who ARE vaxxed are NOT dying. They won't believe what 'science' and 'Democrats' are telling them until it becomes so blatantly 'real' that they can't deny it anymore.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Some are so far down the rabbit hole that even deaths of loved ones won't do it. But we will peel off some at the margins.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Only a Republican would think killing off their own base is a smart idea.
D'OH.
PortTack
(32,778 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Economy going down the tubes, if there's significant shortages in grocery stores around election time, those kinds of things.
They only need to pick up ONE Senate seat, and/or what like 9 House seats?
I wouldn't discount the possibility entirely based on 2020.
apnu
(8,758 posts)Biden is pro-vax and getting us out of COVID. Republicans are anti-vax, anti-mask, and have promoted dangerous snake oil as alternatives. Their base is suffering under this delta variant, it is literally killing them.
Weird strategy, literally dying to own the Libs.
CousinIT
(9,247 posts)evil. They likely figure 'winning' against Biden is worth some dead people - even if most are from their own party. We know Republicans can't do math.