What do you think? Why Didn’t Facing a Common Enemy Bring Us Together?
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42785921
I couldn’t read the whole article because it’s behind a paywall, but the answer is Trump and the Republican party made sure everyone stayed divided and at each other’s throats because they’d rather see millions dead than try to work together with the left
I think they had far more nefarious reasons than that. They intentionally try to divide themselves from the other corporate party to keep us (the poor) infighting. It was a simple exercise in branding.
Let’s put it this way: If this were the WWF, they were chosen to play the role of the Undertaker so we’d fight hard for Hulk Hogan despite Hulk Hogan being good friends with the Undertaker (indeed working WITH the undertaker all along) to take away our basic freedoms. They like to show us the blatant evil so that we’ll accept the fake good guys as our allies.
Because anti-vaxxers exist.
Because other priorities were at play, such as money and mental health.
Money? How does money relates to health emergency and deadly pandemic?
Grifters. So so many grifters.
That’s not possible! We saved whole world from the deadly virus thing. Everyone knows that.
I guess that could be construed as sarcasm, but it’s not very good sarcasm.
Because some people used it as an excuse to divide us further. Unity is bad when the only thing you want is keeping your power.
Well, you know, there was the fact that Trump actively ignored the problem when it was predominantly affecting “Blue” urban areas - remember New York with the initial surge, and how they were literally stacking bodies like lumber in walk-in freezers because they ran out of morgue space so quickly? He literally weaponized the spread of the pandemic in areas that did not support him through pointed inaction. Honestly, how do people forget that? It was an egregious and malicious dereliction of duty. If we had a less tribal political climate, that’d be strong grounds for impeachment, conviction, and subsequent criminal charges.
That, of course, came around to bite him in the ass, because pathogens don’t give a single fuck about what party you’re registered under, and the south ultimately maintained much higher infection, transmission, and death rates due to partisan bias/belief in anti-vax shit and pandemic precaution pushback/refusal in conservative areas.
It wasn’t a common enemy. Covid is more in line with a natural disaster. Not everyone reacts to a natural disaster the same way.
