If, like me, you grow up in a particularly conservative part of the country at a particularly conservative time in history, then a memorable little head is hammered: The Republican Party is “the party of personal responsibility”. Ronald Reagan said in a quote that one would see and hear very often: “It is time to restore the American law that each individual is responsible for his or her actions.” It is of course absurd to think that accountability is an issue Living at some point on the left-right continuum, the idea that anyone has ever said, “I don’t think that everyone is responsible for their actions.” But conservative people loved Ronald Reagan, and everyone loves quotes that flatter them and so, by simple repetition, it became an accepted truth. Republicans are responsible people, and everyone else is just making out in some way.
Regardless of this, a crowd cheered a fatal respiratory disease at the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend.
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Yes. Alex Berenson crows over how the Biden government failed in its goal of getting 90 percent of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, the virus that has stalled our world, the virus that we are just getting out of, the virus that has Killed over 4 million people, including 606,000 Americans, and the number is growing. Berenson didn’t take the responsibility to check his numbers – Biden’s goal was 70 percent with at least one dose by July 4th, and we’re now at about 56 percent – but the result is that after hearing the audience, that one of President Biden’s goals was not met breaks out into enthusiastic applause. This room full of grown people grabs his hands for more death.
Jesus H. Christ. Substitute any other reasonable measure in place of vaccination. Imagine this guy was up there bragging about how many people disregard drunk driving laws these days and wonder what that applause would mean. Celebrating low vaccination rates is actually worse, more selfish, and less responsible; drunk drivers kill people, but they don’t pass their high BAC on to the other drivers on the road and send them away to kill more people.
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I know it is unwise to extrapolate a greater meaning from what is going on at CPAC. These are the weirdos, the die-hard, the boat owners. If Republicans are Star Trek fans, CPAC attendees are fluent in Klingon. But some of these damn fools are elected officials. There, MP Madison Cawthorn said of a Biden government plan to send local volunteers knocking on the door to promote vaccination: “You could then go door to door and take your guns, you could door to Go door and your Bibles. ”Yes, if government employees can show up at your door with vaccine information, what could they do next, deliver your bills and correspondence to some sort of box?
There Rep. Lauren Boebert, who I hope you will call “Lazy Chabert” from here on, held a monologue in the style of someone who just watched a Chris Rock special but muted it because of the curses.
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You now know that the ten states with the highest vaccination rates all voted for Biden in the 2020 election, and the ten with the lowest all voted for Trump. You’ve seen the map of vaccination rates by state and how difficult it is to tell it apart from a voting card. You know the highest increases in COVID cases per capita are in the states with the lowest vaccination rates, including Missouri, where I was brought up personally responsible. My hometown of St. Louis only had to send ventilators to nearby Springfield, whose surrounding counties have vaccination rates in their teens and twenties. There are more people in ICU in southwest Missouri than in ICU since December 2020. “There used to be a limited amount of things you could do to keep yourself away,” Dr. Henry Jarvis, a Springfield ambulance, told the Kansas City star. “Now it’s a really conscious decision that ‘I don’t need a vaccination’. There is a different level of frustration because we are seeing something that we really don’t need to see. “
If you didn’t get the vaccine because you “did research”, let me tell you something briefly: You didn’t “research”, you “went online”. Do you know who is doing your research? Scientist. Virologists. Immunologists. They study and analyze and appraise. You googled. You have visited the big beautiful internet that God has given us, an internet with thousands of pictures of Jack Grealish’s calves, and you have used it to find someone to justify what you already wanted to do. Who cares if it was a misspelled Reddit post with a hand-drawn pie chart by ronburgundy420; You found it and are now a willing host to a virus that is still developing and mutating.
Applauding the prospect of another unnecessary death.
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Again, this is CPAC, the Woodstock ’99 of conservative festivals. But it doesn’t just happen there; Fox News is increasingly broadcasting anti-vaccine content and frames efforts to promote vaccination as the “COVID POWER TOMB OF THE LEFT”. Are their on-air talents self-vaccinated? Yes; They told you that too when capitulating to anti-Vaxxers before they lost some audience share to Newsmax and OAN wasn’t good business. You are safe and sound. Springfield doesn’t.
We somehow managed to politicize caution. We officially pushed every single thing through that tired left-versus-right binary because now we have people cheering against the common good. Courtesy, compassion, security: these are now fronts in the culture war.
Things are slowly changing. You may one day be complacent about personal responsibility and then some time later identify yourself as a member of a party whose biggest idiots are making The Wave for a pandemic. But if you still believe what fed you in the 1980s, voting Republicans because responsible people do, if you’re one of those moderates that must be out there, look where we are. You helped.
If you voted for this circus, you take on some personal responsibility. Please come and help us clean up the elephant shit.
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