The intensity of hatred that Republicans have for liberals is confounding to me. Especially the Trump Cultists. They have created some kind of hatred cult, where “owning the libs” is more important than their own interests, safety, or lives - hatred for liberals, scientists, experts, and government. The most obvious craziness is the refusal of so many in the Republican Party to mask, socially distance, or vaccinate against the pandemic. I understand that some thoughtful people with medical conditions can’t take vaccines, and others have what they feel are legitimate concerns about the effects of vaccines (although I don’t share those concerns).
But, we have a huge percentage of people on the political right who are willing to get sick or even die if it upsets liberals. Their defiance of science is a way of identifying with their tribe, their cult, their way of finding some kind of belonging and doesn’t seem to me to be part of any thoughtful exploration, but more just a way of being together in strange defiance of The Libs. And they are pumped full of hate by a right wing media bubble making fortunes off of stoking the hatred.
In England, the Brexit people committed economic suicide so they could show those damned London people who ran their country. Now there is nobody to drive their trucks and deliver gasoline to their gas stations. (Hat tip to James Carville)
This is beyond strange. It is pretty crazy.
Putin celebrates. Years of disinformation and anti-science propaganda is paying off big time for him. His spooks have been exploiting divisions in America and turning the divisions into hatred for decades.
