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Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann
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I looked up the Atlantic article they mentioned and it’s reasonably accurate,
Although I would say it’s not just scorn but fear, fear of the unknown. ‘The devil you know’ and all of that.
My little foray into the Trump anti-vax zone has shown me that many are just extremely scared and the constantly downplayed risk of covid feels safer to them than the unknown constantly played up risk of the vaccine. There was a lot of “what if?” style arguments against getting vaxed combined with the ‘I’m healthy so I won’t die’ sentiment about contracting covid. Many seem certain that they will be around in 10 years time, and what if the vaccine causes problems then? Better not chance it.
I’d also say that I bet there’s a decent number of people enjoy some of the things he does, assume it won’t happen to them, don’t care about others, but don’t want to admit it to themselves, let alone others, so they claim to hate him, while secretly voting for him.
Also I agree with that triage article, many have so scared themselves into their current beliefs that only if it actually happens to them will it shock them out of it, there’s nothing a random person can do that will convince them otherwise.
Since as we all know, the secret cabal of baby eating democrats want to take your guns and place you in camps while assaulting your children, that’s just fact. Besides, liberals are just so obsessed with hating Trump they’re probably making most of it up anyway.