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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe trend to stop the public health services from protecting the public, is there something
more behind this agenda?
First, let me say that all of this was foreseen. Maybe no one understood what it meant at the time, but the human behavior that we're experiencing today was observed in the nineties, by, of all people, our local Chamber of Commerce.
My friend worked for the Chamber back then, and told me about it. She said that each year they invited an organization to come in to supervise a test that they applied to leaders or members in the community. What this organization would do was to divide the group into three smaller sections. Group A were defined as the leaders. They had full control to make rules and had access to resources. Group B were the health and public services, i.e. teachers and police. And Group C were considered people who had no resources, no money, etc.
The first test was to send each group to separate rooms, where they were given ten minutes to discuss and define their purpose. My friend was put in Group C. The group that had nothing. They walked into a bare room where there wasn't even a table or chairs. She would later learn that Group A had all the comforts of a conference room.
So, after the ten minutes were up, the group came back to the main room where they explained what they discussed. Whatever they said, didn't matter compared to what happened next. When they had to go back to the rooms to confer again with their groups, Group C took their chairs with them to have something to sit on. Such a simple human comfort.
Well, when the groups came back together, Group A began to make rules. They set penalties for stealing. Of course, Group C got their gander up and continued to take the chairs back to the room when it was time to confer with their groups. So Group A continued to set more rules. No coffee, no donuts for those who break the rules.
Then the people who organized the test added real life environmental challenges. I'm sure that the presence of a virus was one of them. To cut this short, Group A would stop Group B from helping or assisting Group C, and eventually everyone in Group C were marked as deceased, and some in Group B, as well.
Think about all the good they could have done, restructuring the rules to help Group C become positive contributors to their make-believe society. Instead, they went entirely in the other direction, intentionally viewing Group C as a nuisance that had to be eliminated.
The organization that administered this test said that in all the years they had run this test, that the results of that day were the worst they had ever seen. This happened in the late nineties, when attitudes in the local community were taking on a very gruesome, tribal ideology.
So, now we're in the present time. I can understand idiots in the conservative circles applying pressure on Republican Governors to interfere with vaccine distribution and mask mandates. But, what is the endgame? By now they have to realize that they are not immune to the blowback of such ill advised policies. So, what is the endgame for hobbling your own country? Do they really believe there will be a country willing to follow their leadership if they try to use chaos to take over power?
Bluethroughu
(5,204 posts)A man told my husband once on a civil job site where contractors were fighting with eachother and causing problems for eachother..."I make a lot of money when there is chaos".
Look at the PPP money...loads of big companies got free money to get bigger, with basically no strings attached.
More more more, it's never enough. I read recently a study about the different income levels and their anxiety, the richest people had high anxiety...they know being poor is violent and they want no part of it.
Fix the system by taxing religious organizations and their property, and raise the taxes on the wealthy not to 90% buy 30% FLAT TAX WILL DO, they love to push flat taxes.
And take money out of politics, corporations are not people, the Constitution defines people as those that are enumerated in the Census...corporations are not counted, it's that simple.
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)I know our country cannot sustain a level of continual chaos. Good decent people require some degree of certainty, or community trust and cooperation degrades.
Bluethroughu
(5,204 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)has been mentioned as a reason. If too many people inhabit this earth, and several million just got to go, does it matter how they get gone? The problem is these days when nothing quite makes sense, the unthinkable is possible.
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)I don't apply limitations to any explanations that try to bring understanding to what drives Republicans.
What I find myself doing, however, is looking for confirmation.