Talk to any trumpers lately?
Have come across a few who feel the need to tell anyone who will listen that the Covid-19 is not a big deal and is just like every cold and flu we have known before. As proof one woman said her son had the flu and he recovered. These are dangerous people. Some of them will show their defiance by going to work and public places while sick. They are getting a daily dose of this message and feel the need to pass it on.
Trump and his minions like Larry Kudlow need to be restrained from any more comments on the subject. For trump it is time for the 25th Amendment to kick in. He could care less if people die and he is mentally ill.
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Thanks for pointing that out.
and getting a bit of 'both-siderism' from them.
Don’t deserve to get it.
Liberals are liberal.
The longer older conservatives have been exposing themselves to the bad leaders encouraging extremism, the more affected and also the less interested in adopting new attitudes, which was never big with them anyway. RW brain-fuckering techniques have become very sophisticated.
As for the effects of age, most of us become at least somewhat more experienced and less careless with age (and as studied, with parenthood), which is different from more conservative but is often mistaken for it.
I remember not learning what I should about what Jerry Brown was calling for nearly 50 years ago; surely putting a stop to horror-story mental institutions was a very good and necessary thing? I didn't know he was going to just release CA's mentally ill onto the streets and we were going to leave them there (very like those today enthusiastically trying to repeal the ACA with nothing but similarly high-sounding rhetoric to replace it). I didn't get more conservative after that, just a lot more responsible about who and what I voted for.
As for dying, in China supposedly the death rate in one group for the VERY elderly was 10x what it was for the middle-aged, who were in turn more prone than young people. By far most of us should come out fine (and we do seem to be talking about a lot of people on DU according to one survey I saw), as will most in that idiot subset of conservative-denier types.
Of course older people also make up a large portion of liberals.
Not to smear young people, either, but a lot of those are conservative by nature even if some don't know it yet or won't admit to anything so uncool as agreeing more than not with their grandparents.
Older people vote in much higher percentages than young, who of course tend to average more liberal, culturally if not by nature, and that distorts perceptions. Another factor piled on that is that older liberals, like younger, tend to concentrate in urban areas so most votes are "wasted" compared to those of the spread-out Republican whack jobs whose impact is relatively maximized.
Yes, people believe the president when he lies to us. Worse, they walk among us.
