(05-21-2020, 03:47 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(05-21-2020, 03:44 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I saw two people in the last couple days in stores... both men with "Trump 2020" baseball caps, but no mask.
Oh, the stupid people... where do they all come from!
Masks are intended primarily to protect other people. Why do you expect conservatives to care about other people?
As a stocker in Wal*Mart told me as I registered disgust at people not wearing masks, the people not wearing masks seem largely to be on the reactionary part of the political spectrum (without quite saying that) -- a zone infamous for insensitivity, recklessness, sadism, ignorance, and superstitious fatalism. Just think "Tea Party". These were people definitely to avoid when the dispute was politics or economics. Now that it is about a disease that has killed over 90,000 people... the difference goes beyond the nastiness permissible in our system to a matter of life and death. No, the Tea Party types do not have control of the political system.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.