01-15-2021, 03:19 PM
(01-15-2021, 12:01 PM)David Horn Wrote: My own experience here, deep in the heart of Red Country, tends to disprove your point. Are they QAnon? Maybe not, but the same QAnon nonsense comes out of their mouths: anti-vax, Trump won, and Trump did nothing wrong. Sorry, there is no moral or ethical equivalent to that, to say nothing of basic rationality.
I'm smack dab in the heart of Blue Country, which may be why we have such different views on left v. right. The democrats could nominate an actual donkey for president (or state senator) and we would vote for it.
Here, most people who lean right are those that feel left out of the economic prosperity enjoyed by the urban elites - the guy who came to fix my dishwasher was an ardent Trump fan. My husband drives for Uber and he has picked up a lot of people who favored Trump in the last election. Most of them are working class and small business owners who can't work remotely and are losing money under our 'one-size-fits-all' lockdown approach. The vast majority of counties have had less than 60 deaths and are well under hospital capacity limits, yet they are subject to the exact same restrictions as our five high population areas.
The other 'Trump' supporters in the state are rural communities whose livelihoods are repeatedly threatened by urban voters that impose environmental restrictions that are either impractical or expensive to implement without thought for balancing competing needs or reimbursing those impacted.
Most of the actual anti-vaxxers in my part of the world are leftover from the hippie communalists that distrusted government and fought the man.