Stephan: One of the strangest things I have noticed about the Covid pandemic is that it has become a MAGAt disease, and not by chance but by design. The MAGAt Party is doing everything in its power, from the Supreme Court to the MAGATs in Congress, to Red state governors, to create the circumstances where the MAGAt rabble will contract the disease and die.
Don't get vaccinated, don't wear a mask, gather in rallies. The court's decision against vaccine mandates. The medical data is clear, most of the people in the hospitals are unvaccinated, most of the dying are unvaccinated. But why? The obvious answer is that the people that control the MAGAt Party don't care about their faithful rabble. But why?
The answer to that question, I think, can only be understood if two other things are considered. First, while Covid has been a disaster for the hands-on medical personnel who staff the hospitals, it has been breathtakingly profitable for America's illness profit corporations, the pharmaceutical companies, the companies that own most of the emergency rooms in the hospitals (See SR archive for more on that), the equipment and supply corporations, and the rest. Second, the owners of the MAGAt Party are restructuring the government of the United States, and how voting takes place, and reducing the population, and killing off the tedious MAGAt rabble, from that perspective, is desirable.
It’s very hard to fathom why the right seems so determined to prolong the deadly COVID-19 pandemic but it’s obvious that they are. From politicians banning mask requirements to media celebrities pushing disinformation about vaccines, there is no escaping the fact that Republicans and their allies simply do not care that more than 850,000 thousand Americans are dead in less than two years from this scourge and that hundreds of thousands of them are still dying because they refuse to take life-saving vaccines. That the majority of them are their own constituents who have died because they believe right-wing conspiracy theories is just mind-boggling, but apparently they are convinced that this is good for them politically and gives them great ratings.
I guess I was hoping against all evidence to the contrary that there was some […]
I believe the Supreme Court’s minds should be open; and is not intended to be representative of one political party (Republicans).