Posted on 10/12/2021 11:51:57 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Ending the pandemic has proved hard in the United States, and decades-long political dynamics are a big part of the problem.
Not only has distrust in government contributed to vaccine hesitancy, but following a script too long in the making, many Republican leaders have encouraged citizens to see mitigation methods — like mask and vaccine mandates — as driven by malevolent motives....
This is the Republican playbook in 2021. But it’s nothing new. This sort of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” epitomizes what historian Richard Hofstadter labeled “the paranoid style in American politics” almost five decades ago.
In fact, anti-government rhetoric has been the central strategy of the contemporary Republican Party and the glue that most reliably bound together its coalition dating back to Barry Goldwater and the rise of the conservative movement within the GOP.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The GVT has given me little reason to give it trust. And what about "Bush lied people died", that was not repub rhetoric.
PAY MORE.
Going along to get along Republicans who’ve backstabbed us rank and file voters time after time haven’t inspired much reason to trust or have confidence.
WP? Gert the hell out of here!
Need to review Biden and Harris vaccine skepticism during last months of Trump presidency.
usually it takes three or four to write this much dreck...
The enemedia, such as the Washington Compost, have long stoked within their fellow Demonicrats hatred for the United States and the Constitution. - and now the U.S is bearing the burden of that Demonicrat treachery.
“....epitomizes what historian Richard Hofstadter labeled “the paranoid style in American politics” almost five decades ago.
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Paranoid? Anyone who is not fearful and distrustful of a Faucious style of governments is a damn fool.
Excuse me, are Harris-Fried saying this CF is the conservative person’s fault?
Bungle Bidumb’s got his filthy hands on our tax dollars.
The only ones getting rich are the greedy Biden Crime Family ....... and their collaborators.
A trillion tax dollars were spent on the pandemic......paying people NOT to work.
AND THIS
The art gallery showing Hunter’s “art” got $580,000.00 tax dollars, including federal Paycheck Protection monies.......the gallery has only two employees.
No big deal, right?
After all, Ivanka’s clothing shop was mentioned in public by the White House press Secretary.
THAT was a criminal act!
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by The ANTIFA by Jack Posobiec, for Tuesday shows that 41% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Fifty-seven percent (57%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 20% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 50% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -30.
Americans have NOI trusted government since long before the revolution. That’s why we broke away from King George. That’s why we have a constitution restricting government power.
Well sure, because the corrupt government of Washington DC invaded them and occupied their states with Armies while their corrupt carpetbaggers stole everything they could steal.
Hmmm...so who was in charge of the whole Russia, Russia, Russia scam? It was actually a tag-team of Democrats, the media, and the Federal Government. Who funded insanely dangerous gain-of-function research at a Chinese lab...why it was our Federal government. The writers of this piece should be sentenced to watching the Kamala space video over and over and over...without access to alcohol.
This is rich, coming from the Wapo.
When the D’s are out of power, they stoke the furnaces of government distrust and are lauded for it. They even give carte blanche to rioting against it. Hillary, Kamala, Biden, Waters, The Squad, Obama, etc., are famous for their rants against government—especially in the hands of Republicans. Kamala and Biden campaigned and debated AGAINST the vaccine—”Trump’s vaccine.”
But when the D’s are back in power, the boot comes down (literally) on conservative dissenters and then the Wapo clucks wondere at their distrust of government.
“Not only has distrust in government contributed to vaccine hesitancy, but following a script too long in the making, many Republican leaders have encouraged citizens to see mitigation methods — like mask and vaccine mandates — as driven by malevolent motives....”
If anything the Brandon administration has validated conservative’s distrust of government and its malevolent motives.
Because Conservatives were right, Government IS Untrustworthy, and has turned on it's Legacy Citizens by installing a Fascist dictatorship.
If you trust the Government, then your history teacher has not done his job.
Oh. Wait.
They don’t teach schoolkids history any more. They teach “Social Studies.”
Y’know what this sounds like?
It sound “Xi Jingping Thought.”
The freaking WP is sounding like CCP propaganda
So the thesis is, “all we need is for everyone to agree [with us] and then everyone would agree”?
Is there some hidden wisdom in that tautology? [ans: no]
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