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How to Defuse Trumpian Trolling on Vaccines
And why sophisticated Americans can’t solve that problem
Many Americans decided the Covid pandemic is a political rather than a scientific medical issue. They decided this because politics is fun, science is boring, and Americans have been infantilized by decades of indoctrination in consumerism.
Many Americans don’t want to rescue themselves. They want to be entertained.
The Farce of the US Pandemic Response
Thus, the quarter of Americans who belong to the Democratic tribe pride themselves on their professionalism and intellectual sophistication, so they signal their virtue by deferring to the medical experts who tell them to wear masks and to get vaccinated.
The quarter who belong to the Trump cult are aggrieved and out for vengeance against the establishment figures they despise for their smug cosmopolitanism. The Trumpian Republicans repudiate the medical experts, dismissing their recommendations as part of a sinister conspiracy against the God-fearing, white, rural salt of the earth. Trumpians don’t wear masks in the pandemic, and refuse to get vaccinated.
(The other half of Americans are either too busy to care about politics or they’re enlightened and see through the tribal…
