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Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
1. Deeply fearful
Tue May 4, 2021, 04:50 PM
May 2021

These people are deathly afraid of the virus, but they do not understand the virus. So, to cope with their cognitive dissonance that a microscopic virus they cannot see and cannot shoot can kill them, they minimize the danger. They downplay, dismiss, and lie to themselves and others to minimize their own fear.

It's a macho, problem smashing kind of mindset, the same one that convinces them to arm up in fear of hoards of invaders who will come to their homes to take their stuff. Right, Ma and Pa Kettleburbs.

It's willful ignorance, and the days when their uninformed, uneducated, sheer ignorance is as good as our well educated, specially trained, knowledge and facts are over.

The pushback is real, and while twitter and fb give the illusion that the half wit in the back of the class can hold his own with the smartest kid is class, the sane and logical among us are quietly speaking up. 100 days in. Let's see what things look like in six months, when schools are open like normal, and low income families are lifted out of poverty, and Americans are put to work on infrastructure at $15/hr.

While I'd be wrong to bet against American stupidity, I'll hedge and bet more on Biden's vision and his ability to *Govern* for all of us, not just his voters.

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