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.
I don't know what age group or demography you're in but pretty much everyone I know is at least a radlib when you start talking politics, people I've known casually turn out to be hardline MLs more often than I ever expect. Hell even my token chud friend from high school has called me up to ask about what Marxism actually is in the last year.
the comrade that said join an org is right, and even if there aren't any parties active in your area I bet you there are orgs like tenant unions or food not bombs which are great ways to make material impacts on your community and stop feeling quite so burnt out on america in general.