(12-20-2021 01:03 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: And that plan is to continue to divide the country
You see it right here by just reading the title to these posts.
Many won't see it but it's there.
First it was to divide us by race. Now by the vaccine.
Sad what this country has come to.
Collectivism is always going to divide a people. When people entrench themselves into tribes, instead of rational conversations, that's what occurs.
We've been dividing into tribes since the country was founded.
George Washington warned of political parties...and we instantly started having political parties.
My main issue with the vaccine debate is the irrationality among anti-vaccine folks. It isn't an issue, to me, what their choices are. It's an issue of spreading bad information, believing in it, and entrenching themselves in it. You can be anti-vaccine AND believe in real, actual information (it's just that real, actual information typically contradicts the majority of anti-vaccine beliefs).
But if you think race is the only thing that's been dividing Americans, you've not been paying attention. We've been subdivided via neighborhoods, between county lines, between political parties, race, medical conditions, income levels, classes, etc.
And the only thing keeping us from breaking those lines is continuing to embrace them as part of our identity. Both sides do this. It's just like a comment denigrating transgendered people. Yes, science actually does explain transgender. In fact, medical conditions can even make this more real than just a psychological component. Yet instead of breaking that line to see it - it's just a good time to joke about it.
The vaccine division is not just a vaccine issue. It's become not only a reason versus anti-reason issue. It's not only a moral issue. It's been turned into a political issue because people's political identities pinch hint for their lack of reasoning skills.
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The vaccines are working as planned
