I'm a former Nebraska resident and volunteered for Campaign for Liberty and the Ron Paul 2012 campaign, as well as was part of my county's GOP central committee for about two years. The amount of saying one thing, then rolling over and doing another thing, was astounding. What is with the surrendering of rights and principles when an authority figure comes asking for them?
Much of my family still lives there, and the unblinking, unquestioning assent to anything a perceived expert or authority says is mind-blowing. And yet all my extended family, my late grandparents, I'm sure even I myself at one point, all view it the same way. Trust the experts. Trust your doctor. Trust, trust, trust.
My parents' ZIP code had an 0.04% infection rate as of yesterday, and yet they and apparently all their contacts on social media and all the local media types were collectively losing their shit that "MANY MIGHT DIE" because a mall that never closed, was going to "reopen". (How do you "reopen" something that never closed anyway?) And now the media is losing their collective shit over meat packing and even so-called "common good" conservatives are saying that the only humane thing is to shut 'em all down until the virus risk is past and we have a vaccine available. Oh, sure, hunger is "common good" now?
I'm not trying to throw shade on good liberty-minded residents of Nebraska. I'm sure there are many. I might still be one myself if life hadn't thrown me a curveball a few years back. But what's going on in what I used to think was a great red state?!
I'm a former Nebraska resident and volunteered for Campaign for Liberty and the Ron Paul 2012 campaign, as well as was part of my county's GOP central committee for about two years. The amount of saying one thing, then rolling over and doing another thing, was astounding. What is with the surrendering of rights and principles when an authority figure comes asking for them?
Much of my family still lives there, and the unblinking, unquestioning assent to anything a perceived expert or authority says is mind-blowing. And yet all my extended family, my late grandparents, I'm sure even I myself at one point, all view it the same way. Trust the experts. Trust your doctor. Trust, trust, trust.
My parents' ZIP code had an 0.04% infection rate as of yesterday, and yet they and apparently all their contacts on social media and all the local media types were collectively losing their shit that "MANY MIGHT DIE" because a mall that never closed, was going to "reopen". (How do you "reopen" something that never closed anyway?) And now the media is losing their collective shit over meat packing and even so-called "common good" conservatives are saying that the only humane thing is to shut 'em all down until the virus risk is past and we have a vaccine available. Oh, sure, hunger is "common good" now?
I'm not trying to throw shade on good liberty-minded residents of Nebraska. I'm sure there are many. I might still be one myself if life hadn't thrown me a curveball a few years back. But what's going on in what I used to think was a great red state?!