Right Wingers complain about Gun Control, NSA , but Support Forced Quarantine ?

[JI7]

suddenly these people want to shut down borders, ban people, force health workers and anyone else they see as having any kind of contact with Ebola into forced quarantine.

but they have been attacking Obama for taking away their guns, spying on them , controlling their lives etc.

how do people end up so stupid ?

[MADem]

1. It's "OK" to bully the "unwashed masses." Those "serfs" are inferior to them, you see!

That's their attitude and they're stickin' to it!!!!

[bmac19gg]

2. you listed things that people on the left care about too

At least that used to be the case. I don't want to be spied on and I'd like not to catch a disease. I don't want my property taken from me and if criminals/evil people are crossing the border I'd like for them not to be confused with innocents.

I guess its a matter of degrees in 'thinking what will happen' vs. 'whats actually happening'.

[JI7]

4. the only concern right wingers have is brown and black people coming over

or having any rights.

[bmac19gg]

5. well i have concerns too

I have concerns when people like my best friends husband have to jump through 8 months and $17,000 worth of hoops to be welcomed into the USA when somebody else can just walk over the border. I know its not as simple of an issue as one sentence makes it out to be but its something I think both left and right could agree needs addressing.

[spanone]

7. tell them to just walk over the border if it's so easy.

[arcane1]

9. Wouldn't you agree that jumping through the hoops has benefits that walking across doesn't?

[JI7]

10. "my best friends husband" yes, the best friend again

and those who cross the border illegally also pay a lot of money and risk their lives doing it.

[bmac19gg]

14. ya my best friend since high school, problem?

And my opinion is that making legal immigration easier and cheaper is our best bet to reducing illegal immigration. Border security is highly important but if we can get the innocent good people in through the correct means and leave the criminals out of it we'll be doing a better service to all.

[coldean]

3. Yep

And the right wingers had a fit over all the airport security after 9-11.
Said our freedoms were taken away all because of terrorist but it's okay to take freedoms away all because of Ebola.

Yea I don't get it either

[NutmegYankee]

6. Fear

Those same right wingers welcomed the security when they were afraid.

[Crazypolitics25]

8. Utter hypocrisy

This is utter hypocrisy because on one hand they're complaining about spying and gun rights being taken away but support forcing just about any suspected to have had contact with Ebola.You can't be against spying and gun control and forcing people into quarantine at the same time.

[arcane1]

11. They love "jack-booted thugs" too, as long as they are municipal and not federal.

They are the "law and order" fetishists, after all

[customerserviceguy]

12. You can almost always predict a person's reaction to something

by trying to look at it from the "Could it happen to me? Can I find reasons to reassure myself that it can't possibly happen to me?"

Right wingers see themselves as gun owners (or at least they know and are friendly with gun owners), they know they talk on the phone and send emails that they think Barack Obama would be curious about, but neither they, nor anyone they know, is going to go to West Africa to treat Ebola sufferers. Therefore, it's "OK" if the government does this.

Besides, it was blessed by their hero, Chris Christie, who even got that radical hippy Andy Cuomo to agree with him, so it must be OK!

[samsingh]

13. it's not them being confined

[former9thward]

15. Governors Cuomo and Quinn are certainly not right wingers.

But they are involved in re-election campaigns. Scott is also involved in one and Christie is running for President. Since those are the four that have created quarantines then I would say politics is the main motivation not ideology.

[JI7]

16. they also support gun guntrol, i'm mostly referring to the teabaggers and other wingnuts

who are always complaining about government.