no no, that is lazy thinking.
At least here for the US, you have several demographics, and their associated worldviews, all converging on a single set of outcomes, that is HIGHLY deleterious.
1), the GOP in general has a toxic "market religion", with a primary tenet that anything and everything that discourages them and their rich donors getting even more money out of the market, is "OMG, UNTHINKABLE HERESY!"
As such, *ANY* kind of government spending that is NOT "directly given to either them (through an intermediary) or to one of their crony friends", is simply **UNTHINKABLE!!!**. Likewise, increasing taxes on any of the above is *DOUBLY UNTHINKABLE!!* Since this fucking WORLD-WIDE, INTERNATIONAL-EMERGENCY is costing the whole goddamn planet, not only unspeakable losses in human life and suffering, but also protracted economic fallout that will persist for likely a whole damn generation, the notion of "We really need to mitigate this NOW, and not drag our feet, and drop some mitigation NOW, to limit the consequences of the endgame" makes the most total sense, but **NOT** to a GOP die-hard. See, to THEM, people ending up dead is "Just nature", and they cling like frenzied madmen to their religious dogmas: TAXCUTS FOR THE WEALTHY, PORK FOR THEIR CONSTITUENTS, and LITTLE PEOPLE DON'T MATTER.
This is why in the US, those idiots are trumpeting a 2/3 cut in relief, (THAT IS INTENDED TO KEEP THE ECONOMY FUCKING ALIVE, SO THE END HIT IS LESS!!) as a valid "Compromise." (with the majority of the spending they decided to keep, going to themselves through intermediates, or to their direct cronies, and FUCK THE SMALL PEOPLE, they should just die.)
2) The indolent masses are squeezed by the above kinds of situation, (at least in the US)-- leaving them no breathing room to deviate from it (which our GOP friends consider "ideal"), and even if they could, their habituation makes them unwilling to, by and large. A reasonable portion of the public does have the combination of capability, and where-with-all to be proactive and make the necessary adjustments, and do what is needed in this crunch, but the real reality is that *BEFORE* the pandemic, more than 50% of our population was already so hamstrung that they could not survive the loss of a single paycheck without going into poverty. (Again, see item 1.) They lack the elasticity to handle not being a "plague bearer". The added stresses of doing right, and complying with the lockdown, puts them past their psychological breaking point, which is why they freak the fuck out, and then riot-- why they shirk the pandemic requirements to go get drunk-- (They simply cannot cope while sober, they are chemically dependent on the clubbing, and thrill seeking, even under NORMAL conditions!)
3) Then, on top of those, you have the actual "nergal worshipers", who worship the GOP types like they were gods-- and suckle up to them. (Like Qanon, and co.. See also, Trump's lunatic following) who have the same toxic "religion" about the market and where money should be going, despite the fact that it is fucking killing them in droves. (and the statistic that this is close to 50% of the goddamn population)
When you combine the statistics, with the financially imperiled 50% being equally divided among political affiliates, along with the near 50% split on political affiliations and their ideologies, you end up with greater than 50% that either WILL NOT, or CANNOT comply with the necessary mitigations.
The same will be true later, for climate change, and the same will be true for any other disaster that could happen along.
This recurring trend to never actually, you know, REALIZE THIS, and FUCKING DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT, rather than just turning to blatant name-calling and exclusionary politics, will only fucking doom the planet.
Misanthropy Intensifies.
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