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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't Let This Be Known: Right-Wing Leaders Want COVIDiots to DIE!
Think about it. Right-wing politicians, talk show hosts, FOX News talking heads, and others got their vaccinations as soon as they possibly could. Then, they turned right around and told their most rabid followers not to get vaccinated. Instead, they told them to take Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, to gargle Betadine, and to put light bulbs up their butts.
They've got their vaccinations to protect them, so why are they counseling their sycophants to fight against vaccination? How does that make any sense at all, unless they are quietly plotting to rid the nation of those who follow them?
The only reasonable answer is that they secretly hate their followers and want them dead. While that might seem to be a paradox, the reality is that their most wacko followers scare the crap out of them. Those COVIDiots would turn on them in a second, and those leaders know that all too well. The only safe thing to do is to slowly, but inexorably, help them to get sick and die.
texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)They created the monster. The constant lies, rage and fear to get the monster to the polls on Election Day. Hang Mike Pence can easily shift to hang Fox News Hosts. GOP politicians are scared of their own base as well. However, they need them politically. What a pickle
moondust
(19,917 posts)if the electoral system can be sufficiently rigged to always produce the outcomes they desire?
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)Keep up the death and illness rate, and run on "Biden promised to fix covid and just look at all these corpses!'
Though I agree they despise their followers....
0rganism
(23,855 posts)Will you lay down your lives and those of your friends and family for an arbitrary and ambiguous cause?
By the end of this outbreak, the surviving followers will have lost someone they knew, likely someone they knew well. It will be hailed as a sacrifice "for Greater America" or some such, and the leaders can count on a "sunk cost fallacy" response to gain unswerving fealty.
Then they can proceed with even more awful activities.
peggysue2
(10,811 posts)Breitbart's twisted logic is . . .
It's the Dems fault by preaching the merits of the virus, praising Dr. Fauci--someone we know the right-wing hates--and then mocking these die-hard patriots for their ignorance of science and lack of basic common sense.
So, of course, the right-wing has refused the vaccines. Duh.
According to this explanation, the entire vaccine fight is a deliberate, reverse psychology jiu jitsu maneuver: kill off the Republican electorate and gain total power throughout the country, Marxism for all.
Victory!
Hurts my brain. But it is what it is: Insane. All of it.
MyMission
(1,845 posts)That linked to an explanation by a right winger who disclosed why they were allowing people to sicken and die. Basically he said when people die Biden and Dems will get the blame, rather than the credit for controlling covid. Sadly that made sense, as much as anything they do can make sense.
The GOPQ doesn't care about anyone or anything except staying in and gaining money and power. They didn't control it well when they were in power. They are willing and eager to destroy lives of their own people to make Biden and the Dems look bad. And the right wingers are allowing and encouraging their followers to be unsafe, setting them up for death or treatments that will break the medical system further, another added benefit for them to discredit us!That political line is there, and sacrificing some of their supporters is worth it.
And there's profit to be made from the many alternative treatments you mentioned, they treat it, don't prevent it (and meanwhile I see a future for mask manufacturers they want to discourage.) And I'm sure a number of them do hate their idiot followers too, while others just enjoy causing suffering and hardship. Most believe the masses are expendable to a degree.
May covid reduce their numbers.
Marius25
(3,213 posts)They want them dead, because their deaths can be blamed on Biden, which will help the GOP in certain elections.