On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:10:17 -0600, rdh <
rdh@tilde.institute> wrote:
It seems to be the GOP playbook
I am not aware of GOP's voter breakdown (religious, race, business,
etc), but apparently, "religious" voters are needed to be elected.
will of the governed
Many GOPers are not rational beings...
July 14, 2021
My Body, My Choice? The Paradox of Republican Anti-vaxxers
The first time I saw a photo of an anti-vaxxer with a sign that read
"My Body My Choice," I was sort of puzzled. I thought perhaps the
photo editor had used the wrong image to accompany the story--but then
I saw that the sign also included a picture of a mask with a red line
across it. No, these people weren't protesting a government that was
regulating uteruses, a government that was telling women when they
could end a pregnancy that was going on in their own bodies. They were
instead protesting a simple and painless public-health measure. They
were mad at the idea of having to wear a piece of fabric on their
faces. For this particular group, government regulation was fine
unless it was regulating them---at which point it became a horrible infringement on their constitutional rights.
These anti-vaxxers are becoming a bigger and bigger part of today's
Republican Party, and they aren't only against inoculation and mask
wearing; they're also against any kind of COVID restrictions
whatsoever and the existence of vaccine passports. Never mind that the
only way to stop the virus is to get people vaccinated; Republicans
seem not to have made this connection. Instead, they have started
treating this group as a protected class--recently, they have started
pushing bills that would protect against discrimination toward
unvaccinated people. The irony, of course, is that a lot of these
Republicans have no problem with discrimination on the basis of race
or sex; many of them have argued that there is no need for an Equal
Rights Amendment. Yet they want to protect their constituents from a
safe, effective, free vaccine that could save their lives from a
highly preventable disease.
https://www.vogue.com/article/my-body-my-choice-the-paradox-of-republican-anti-vaxxers
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