I keep trying to figure out why the republicans are so fired up mean and relentlessly blameful. It seems to me like a LOT to be so incredibly unreasonable—enough to not understand the deaths from being unvaxed; the disturbingly cracked up conspiracy theories etc. But today I had the thought that maybe the reason they are so convinced that we are out to get them, is because of how frightening the alternative is: that things are out of control! As long as someone is to blame, then things can be fixed if we just force them to admit they (the bad guys—in this case democrats) are wrong, then we can take over and this whole pandemic thing will go away.
The alternative: we are mortal, and will die, and we can’t say why or how, and there is ZERO to be done about it. Maybe thhe vehemence withh which they clingg to God guts and guns, and mysogeny and racism, and...is because they desperately need to believe that it CAN be remedied…
The idea of living with doubt, ambiguouty, no real category or answer, is unsettling enough that it can’t even be considered, and they will use every breath at every volume to deny it. Like sticking fingers in their ears and spit speakingg (kelly Ann and Gym) so fast that noone (most of all them) have not one second to consider and reflect...I think that may be it. Control freaks hopped up on fear balls. I mean the end of the universe and the notion of losing your privelege...it’s freaky man!