I'm looking at posts on a hobby forum I also post on and there's some serious furor being caused by the news of the vaccine mandate. Someone referred to Biden as a "Feckless Fuck of a leader" and another person advocated for balkanization for the 20% of the country that doesn't approve of vaccine mandates.
I get that some people have concerns about authoritarianism and expansion of state powers (I mean they kinda don't because if they really did we'd have been done with this government a long time ago) but I'm really, genuinely struggling to understand why this is making so many people irrationally mad. These aren't even open fascists either, it's like liberals and Hank Hill type conservatives. What is it about this sort of governance that so frustrates them? They won't be materially affected in any way, and a lot of them have expressed the desire to be "left alone".
I have to wonder if there is some sort of deeper meaning to "left alone", because throughout a lot of the pandemic it seems that most people have been trying to pretend it's not happening. Is it the fact that the USA is facing a humiliation on it's own soil that it can't shoot at or nuke? I'm really confused by thought process behind this sort of rage.
The logical endpoint of American civil religion. "Freedom" is sacred, but only when it's a negative freedom wherein no one can compel an individual to do anything they don't want to do. No one is a more devoted diciple of American civil religion than a suburban white boomer. A vaccine mandate isn't just an inconvenience, it's trampling on divine right.
yet they'll lick the boots of the HOA, the pigs, etc... but have the feds ask them to get a simple vaccine like all the ones they got to go school as a kid and they cry just like a little baby hahahaha
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This is where you get extreme forms of "you can't tell me what to do!" mentality.