| Flilix said: I can't comment on the substance of your post since I don't know how broadly the 'mask requirements' are/were applied in the US, but I do sympathise with the sentiment of it. Having only two parties to choose from is incredibly restrictive and makes politics even more polarising than it should be. I have 7 parties to choose from and it still feels too limited, there's none of them that I particularly like currently. |
Covid denial became a right wing phenomena becasue their sole platform is do nothing, claim any actual problem is a democratic hoax, and say the democrats are evil for doing anything about it. That's why Fox News, the last reliable news source according to the OP, independently implemented a vaccine mandate, while continuously yelling how vaccine mandates are a naziesque violation of freedom.
Solving problems is unpleasant and often requires us to change the way we live. And people don't like that. No change, no matter how minor, like wearing a mask during a pandemic, is palatable to certain folks. So the republican party has learned not to try and solve any problem ever (except occassionally when it could be blamed on the non-whites, because those people don't vote for them and can be inconvenienced as much as necessary). Then, when the democrats propose any changes and people might have to adjust their lives slightly, they rail against the democrats. This is an example of the strategy in action. Republicans have done approximately jack shit about Covid, wait until people get frustrated with the people implementing MINOR CHANGES WHEN A MILLION PEOPLE HAVE DIED, and voila.
