04-17-2020, 10:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-17-2020, 11:33 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(04-17-2020, 05:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(04-16-2020, 11:05 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN is reporting that Social-distancing deniers have arrived. The red pattern has always been to deny any problem that can only be solved be big government and big taxes. The Coronavirus obviously counts. The efforts to isolate by government order are considered tyrannical. Trump’s attempts to reopen the country and minimize these isolation are to be applauded. The old values favoring Unraveling selfishness and hedonism are thus continued. The post trigger dedication to the common good, to helping out the people on the front lines, is shunned.
Michigan had a protest recently, where the protesters ignored social distancing, flew Trump banners, and if there were any contaminated people carried the Coronavirus back home to their communities. More hot spots.
Cranks -- cornerstones of some authoritarian causes. See also young-earth creationists, anti-vaxxers, Holocaust deniers, "scientific" racists, climate-change deniers, 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and those who claim that the moon landing was staged on a Hollywood sound-stage.
They are more than just cranks. They value themselves and seek personal benefit at the cost of their country and those who are making considerable sacrifice for the common good. They are selfish and hedonistic. The time for that is now past.
A good part of what bugs me is the saying, “Make America great again.” Then we have this conflict between those like the medical community and first responders who sacrifice for the communal good, and the hedonistic selfish people who go their own way and make the sacrifices made all the more repeated and necessary. Want to know what made America great once, what greatness is? Look no further than that.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.