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Opinions | Conservatives have long stoked distrust in government — and now we’re paying for it
Washington Post ^ | Oct 12, 2021 | Amy Fried, Douglas Harris

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
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The authors need to revisit “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” (now referred to as the “USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee”).

The GVT has given me little reason to give it trust. And what about "Bush lied people died", that was not repub rhetoric.

1 posted on 10/12/2021 11:51:57 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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PAY MORE.


2 posted on 10/12/2021 11:53:48 AM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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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.


3 posted on 10/12/2021 11:55:00 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

WP? Gert the hell out of here!


4 posted on 10/12/2021 11:55:44 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: cmj328

Need to review Biden and Harris vaccine skepticism during last months of Trump presidency.


5 posted on 10/12/2021 11:56:01 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

usually it takes three or four to write this much dreck...


6 posted on 10/12/2021 11:56:32 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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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.


7 posted on 10/12/2021 11:57:08 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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“....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.


8 posted on 10/12/2021 11:58:31 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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Excuse me, are Harris-Fried saying this CF is the conservative person’s fault?


9 posted on 10/12/2021 12:00:11 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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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!


Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (-30...new all-time low)
Rasmussen Reports ^
FR Posted on 10/12/2021, 11:53:48 AM by DadOfFive

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.


10 posted on 10/12/2021 12:00:25 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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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.


11 posted on 10/12/2021 12:01:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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Opinions | Conservatives have long stoked distrust in government — and now we’re paying for it

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.

12 posted on 10/12/2021 12:02:09 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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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.


13 posted on 10/12/2021 12:02:22 PM PDT by ghost of nixon
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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.


14 posted on 10/12/2021 12:02:55 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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15 posted on 10/12/2021 12:03:10 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“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.


16 posted on 10/12/2021 12:03:18 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Conservatives have long stoked distrust in government — and now we’re paying for it

Because Conservatives were right, Government IS Untrustworthy, and has turned on it's Legacy Citizens by installing a Fascist dictatorship.

17 posted on 10/12/2021 12:05:46 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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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.”


18 posted on 10/12/2021 12:05:50 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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Y’know what this sounds like?
It sound “Xi Jingping Thought.”
The freaking WP is sounding like CCP propaganda


19 posted on 10/12/2021 12:09:16 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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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]


20 posted on 10/12/2021 12:09:31 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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