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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeems like the elders are not prepared to die for Trumps death cult
When we look to America, we all know that the government response has been panicked, untrustworthy, incompetent pile of bullshit to Covid-19. I am not going to bore with the list of utter horror, we all know what it is. But here is the thing. This government has to rely on the voters to get back into power, and their instinct is not to save lives but to save the economy, their instinct is to try and convince the elderly and the vulnerable that they should be happy to sacrifice their lives for the republic. Now that is way more freakish than any country should endure in this time. But it is backfiring. Seems like old people dont like being told they are expendable and new polling shows his support amongst the elders is tanking.
Quinnipiac shows seniors approving of Trumps handling of the coronavirus by a 48/45 margin in early March but disapproving by a 52/45 margin in early April, Quinnipiac also shows Bidens lead among seniors swelling from 49/46 in March to 54/41 in April
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trumps-handling-of-coronavirus-may-further-alienate-seniors.html
Seems like people enjoy blinking and breathing and are not willing to sacrifice their lives for the Republican Party Trump era death cult. Heh, who would have thought it?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Also the Hate Pumpkin's daily Scary Clown Show seems to be frightening older viewers.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)(Rural due to rural hospitals having been destroyed).
empedocles
(15,751 posts)katmondoo
(6,455 posts)Turbineguy
(37,320 posts)the trump cult thinks you fought on the wrong side.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)the trump cult thinks you fought on the wrong side.
Same for Union Army veteran in the Civil War.
Chainfire
(17,532 posts)That this senior is not willing to cash it in for the benefit of the rich. Fuck 'em and the whores they rode in on. I would far rather die fighting the bastards in the streets.
agingdem
(7,849 posts)virus, slit throat, bullet to the heart, sleeping pills, suffocation?...they really haven't thought this thru...what a surprise!
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)...offering to shake hands with all without masks......that might take care of the whole mess........
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)They join the ranks of those who rely on safety net income streams. For seniors, this would be the so-called entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare.
I thought Dan Patrick's (Texas Lt. Gov) first comment was ridiculous and grotesque, how seniors should be willing to sacrifice themselves for the US economy. But yesterday's statement left no doubt about the depths Republicans have fallen:
"There are more important things than living."
If you swallow an idea like that, then it's a mere two-step to adopt all matter of monstrous notions. Republicans are willing to do this and say this to keep the support of their ethno-nationalist supporters; it's their only hope of retaining power, to keep the grifting spigots wide open.
As I've said before, it's time for the Republican Party to die a miserable death.