The duplicity of MAGATS.
These people are so weird. I don't have anyone on my Facebook friend list that is foolish enough to take me on directly on my Facebook page. But now and then the newsfeed shows me posts from a friends page, which is heavily bombarded by MAGAT responses. That's how I got into this short debate with someone who was a no-guvmint type.
My friend posted a link to an article announcing the closing of bars in San Antonio. The no-guvmint type replied, "How do you like that socialism?"
It raised my curiosity. Apparently MAGATs think in absolute terms. They can't see why a Republican president or governor will sometimes have to rely on socialist measures. I guess they don't understand that it's government's job to protect the public health, safety and welfare. There were others on the thread that were doing a great job of explaining these basic concepts to him. I strove for something higher. I wanted to show him how Trump made our situation worse by not taking advantage of the warning we had to start on measures that would have bought us more time.
Now I'm going to cut to the chase: The MAGAT said he didn't have to see my data because he wakes up every morning and peruses the internet and learned that Israel had no deaths from coronavirus and he was counting on Israel to come up with a vaccine sooner than the 18 month expected from the U.S.
I gave him the information I had collected anyway, and told him that it didn't look like Trump understood how to use the federal government to provide inducements to our private corporations to provide ventilators, and it wasn't likely that he would be the driving force behind a vaccine. And then I said, it looks like you can see that he's not up for the task because you're already relying on a foreign country to come up with the answer.
And then I gave him the twist. I said I agreed with him. The U.S. will not be the first to come up with a vaccine. For good measure, I closed telling him that the country that came up with the answer would not be one that was concerned with patents and exclusive rights for a vaccine.
Without realizing it, I had just outed the duplicity of MAGATs. They are perfectly happy to yield our position in the world and count on another country to do the heavy work. So, they're not making America Great, and doing quite the opposite.
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Many thousands (millions?) of republicans are wearing red hats that say America is not great.
In great big letters.
