So at CPAC they cheered when it was mentioned that the country hadn't reached the 7/4 vaccination goal, and also cheered at other anti-vax comments.
Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that he was horrified to hear the crowd at a conservative gathering this weekend cheering anti-vaccination comments. “It’s horrifying. I mean…
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This is not conservative rank and file. It's republican leadership.
The GOP is now officially the anti-vaccination party. Hey, if that's the legacy they want...
They have made it into their identity. They refuse to get the vaccine for no reason other than that they’re being told to get it. This pretty much boils down to “I don’t let THEM tell me what to do.” Even though I'm sure Fox and Friends have been vaccinated, and even Trump himself has told them to vaccinate. They’ve made COVID denial into their identity, so much so that the “THEM” part doesn’t matter. Even their own push to get vaccinated, but they don’t listen. I'm not listening to "those people" - the ones that "stole" the election.
Be it Covid, or trans rights, or separation of church and state, content of school curriculum, climate change, or if you go back enough desegregation or suffrage rights or secession it boils down to. "I won't let someone NOT LIKE ME to tell me what to do and what to teach my children to believe. Academic intellectuals, scientists, LGBT people, Urbanites, minorities, people from non-evangelical religions or no religion…
no, we won’t let THEM tell us that how we’re living is wrong. Never mind if it would benefit them, never mind if the “people like us” are the ones ripping them off.