And america failed.
I know so many people who are still throwing baby showers, traveling for leisure, and carrying on as usual. and these are generic libs in a lib city. Chatting at restaurants with masks off, putting their mouths all over dishes that some server has to carry, and a dishwasher has to clean.
On an interpersonal, economic, and governmental level, we are a failed state.
I remember, way back in the early stages when Italy was getting absolutely pummeled wondering how the US would cope. Shortly after, wearing or not wearing a mask became politically charged in that weird theatre the dems and republicans put on and I knew they were fucked.
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This is true about so many issues: abortion, racism, LGBT rights.
The point of making it political is to divide and disorganize the population, such that they are more exploitable.
And by making the Republican party so terrible, people feel like they have no choice but to vote for the lesser evil, instead of empowering a third party.
The most important part of this two party system is maintaining it via propaganda and gerrymandering such that the Republicans keep about 50% of the vote, perfectly balanced.
Everything is a culture war now. Us vs them politics means you can create a loyal voter base and keep winning elections, and therefore keep making money. It also means that you can plow through stuff like a pandemic, because doing stuff that would harm the economy is what The Bad People want.
I swear to god, if you told Americans that there was a republican and a democrat testicle, a significant percentage of the US population with testicles would cut a nut off.
I'd cut both off, but I was already planning to do that, so...
Would you keep your right nut if you knew it was a republican?
A smaller percentage would chop both off.