All the other options lead to worse outcomes, what is not to understand?

[Soph0571]

Now you all know I am not an American, so please help me out here. The more I consider the protests on state houses cause the evil governor dictators are just like Hitler in the minds of the death cult crowd, the more there is something I do not understand.

I get they are right wing, I get that after 50 years of republicans telling them that they should not trust the agencies of governance that they have brought the cheese, I get that they watch an incitement to death media, I get all of that.

What I do not understand is this… How can they purposefully believe that the governors are doing shut downs as an action of bad faith? Do they really believe that these men and women actively want to bring recession, hardship, destitution, dwindling tax revenue as businesses close, because they want to take away the freedom of their citizens? Really? How can that make sense? Do they not understand that they have modelled all possible outcomes from the decisions that they are making, and shutting down is best possible way to ride out the pandemic? That all other options bring about a worse outcome, both in health and in the economy. Do they really believe that these decisions have been made as some nefarious deep state freedom stealing plot? Really? It literally makes no sense.

[gibraltar72]

1. It doesn't need to they have been nurtured by the Right wing.

The dog whistles set them off. My Governor is under really vile attacks. Being a strong woman doesn't help in that regard.

[Laelth]

2. Our politics are deeply partisan and entrenched.

Yes. Many Republicans believe that Democratic office-holders are evil demons who are not acting in good faith.

Conversely, many Democrats believe that Republican office-holders are evil demons who are not acting in good faith. Sometimes, I feel this way myself.

We’re used to this dynamic now. It’s been this way for a couple of decades (at least).

-Laelth

[Midnight Writer]

3. Government Bad Socialism. BusinessGood Capitalism. TrumpGod.

[ananda]

4. This has to do with racism and hate.

They have been told that the people they hate,
not like them, are most vulnerable to the virus.

Ergo ... open everything up. Let them die.
We won't because we're different from them.

[Soph0571]

5. So they will risk dying because a POC is more likely to die?

Fucking hell. I hate that that makes sens.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. To Them It Does

Their hate makes them hear things wrongly.
Minorities are dying at a higher rate, is what is said.
They hear "Only black people die from it."
So, they're pleased & think they're invulnerable.