I am a white working-class rural female voter. And I am also a Democrat. I work in heath care and I watched in real time as my neighbors went from joyous relief at the arrival of the covid vaccine, thrilled to get their lives back, to "Hell, no I'm not letting them inject their 5G wireless tracking devices in me. Besides, covid is a hoax…
I am a white working-class rural female voter. And I am also a Democrat. I work in heath care and I watched in real time as my neighbors went from joyous relief at the arrival of the covid vaccine, thrilled to get their lives back, to "Hell, no I'm not letting them inject their 5G wireless tracking devices in me. Besides, covid is a hoax to get more money for hospitals."
A lot of those folks died. So many, in fact, that our 26 bed hospital had to convert our cafeteria into a morgue for two years. We had covid patients refuse any treatment except Ivermectin. Then we pulled a sheet over their faces, rolled their dead bodies down to the cafeteria, and made room for the next guy in a red hat, knowing he'd be in the cafeteria in a day or two also.
They're a dying breed. They die in droves from disinformation and alcohol and despair, and in 20 years we'll look back and say "THAT was a weird time, wasn't it?
I don't know. It's not my job to challenge their politics, it's my job to keep them alive for another 12 hour shift. But I know they're not nihilists. They have families who sit by their bedsides and beg them to live. Brainwashing? I wish I knew.
partisanship is very powerful; when people are told by their leaders that their partisan identity is linked to ivermectin and covid denial—or to gun ownership—they will embrace those things, even at a risk to their own lives. they're literally dying for fascism. it's nightmarish.
I think it’s a factor of how the garbage is wrapped or packaged.
When reality exceeds peoples comfort level of complexity, then they, we, tend to be vulnerable to simpler solutions.
We have all been three years old when changes of plan drives us crazy until we grow out of it.
Therefore, we can all regress back there under enough stress.
We have all been two years old when to be told no! Drives us into a rage of shame and opposition.
So when MAGA models for us how easy it is to go back to those simple ages when More powerful people were in charge, we are all vulnerable unless we learned complexity through maturity.
I am a white working-class rural female voter. And I am also a Democrat. I work in heath care and I watched in real time as my neighbors went from joyous relief at the arrival of the covid vaccine, thrilled to get their lives back, to "Hell, no I'm not letting them inject their 5G wireless tracking devices in me. Besides, covid is a hoax to get more money for hospitals."
A lot of those folks died. So many, in fact, that our 26 bed hospital had to convert our cafeteria into a morgue for two years. We had covid patients refuse any treatment except Ivermectin. Then we pulled a sheet over their faces, rolled their dead bodies down to the cafeteria, and made room for the next guy in a red hat, knowing he'd be in the cafeteria in a day or two also.
They're a dying breed. They die in droves from disinformation and alcohol and despair, and in 20 years we'll look back and say "THAT was a weird time, wasn't it?
What happened to them? How can an otherwise thinking person fall for so much garbage at such a high risk to themselves? It’s chilling.
I don't know. It's not my job to challenge their politics, it's my job to keep them alive for another 12 hour shift. But I know they're not nihilists. They have families who sit by their bedsides and beg them to live. Brainwashing? I wish I knew.
partisanship is very powerful; when people are told by their leaders that their partisan identity is linked to ivermectin and covid denial—or to gun ownership—they will embrace those things, even at a risk to their own lives. they're literally dying for fascism. it's nightmarish.
I think it’s a factor of how the garbage is wrapped or packaged.
When reality exceeds peoples comfort level of complexity, then they, we, tend to be vulnerable to simpler solutions.
We have all been three years old when changes of plan drives us crazy until we grow out of it.
Therefore, we can all regress back there under enough stress.
We have all been two years old when to be told no! Drives us into a rage of shame and opposition.
So when MAGA models for us how easy it is to go back to those simple ages when More powerful people were in charge, we are all vulnerable unless we learned complexity through maturity.
Thanks for asking a good question.