“Fauci replied that he finds vaccine hesitancy among Republicans “quite frustrating” because it “actually works against where they want to be.””
Sometimes I think Fauci is willfully ignorant. The GOP is driving toward a common goal - to troll the left. They would do literally anything, including giving up their own lives and the lives of their family, just to get a lick in at the Dems.
Waters did what Fauci couldn’t.
I spent a lot of time up in that neck of the woods many moons as my grandparents had a cottage on Glen Lake. But at that time (1960s-1970s) Glen Arbor was a pretty sleepy little rural hamlet. The last time I was through there ten years ago or so, I didn‘t even recognize it any more!
Welcome to my life.
We’ve been hoping to go to the Lake resort for a while, I wonder now if we’d like the place if it’s a loser hotbed.
On that …a few days ago I had occasion to go to Home Depot. I didn’t get in the door because I could see 6-8 maskless folk perusing the aisles and others with masks guarding their chins. So I went to Lowe’s Home Improvement and everybody had their masks on and were keeping their distance as they should. I just changed my choice of business I would shop in. and I did get what I was after.
Republicans can’t even debate someone with half a brain, so big and tough Jim Jordan decides he has the biggest balls and tries to debate someone like Fauci, who has a whole brain.
Same. That one’s good.
I am so grateful to be living where I do. Most everyone is mask compliant save for the inevitable few with their noses hanging out.
In my very similar community the majority of the people you describe would not consider themselves liberals, much less so Dems. They’re the anti-vaxxers and and anti-maskers and whatever politics they hold it’s more of a left-libertarian type but most of them ridicule politics and are as deliberately ignorant and naive of current issues as it’s possible to be.
It’s always pretty hoppin’ when I’m there. If I’ve got Scouts camping or hiking up in the Dunes area, it counts as a trip to town. There’s a grocery store, pizza, and a trip to the Cherry Republic.
Yeah, my memories were sort of like, well, bait store and mom-and-pop corner grocery and a small burger burger/ice cream shop with a take-out window. Some old cottages. Forty years made a big difference.
(Back in the 1920s when my grandfather bought the piece of land the cottage was on, he could have bought the whole north shore of Little Glen for a song – but decided it was not a smart investment, something he later regretted. Of course, to be fair, he couldn’t have foreseen how easy it would later be to drive up for a weekend!)
I’m sorry for the losses of your friends at Togus. In that part of the state, Androscoggin county in particular, there is a real vaccine hesitancy. When trying to make appointments thru the various networks in the state, down south the appts were booked very quickly. But always many more for a couple hour ride up north. I really pray those folks get the jab… overall Maine is doing well in the vax program. But the case counts are headed way up, driven by younger folks who just don’t give rip.
Libertarianism is not on the left side of the political spectrum. It’s just not.
Dumb it down often enough and everyone will be “dumber”.
But I agree on the framing and need for better words. Get the FCC commission in a room, and tell them any time the President says “jackass” on TV, they will make sure the networks aren’t hassled.
Well, a helluva lot of words have been written about something that “just isn’t:”
I think this depends upon time frame and what brand of ‘libertarianism’ you’ve been exposed to. The impression now is that libertarians are more or less far right. It did not start out that way.
Frankly, I want the vaccine ASAP (been hitting the browser refresh button since it opened up to me yesterday, but still no appointments…) but I have no interest in rejoining the world. I would like to see a few people who I miss. Every once in a while. But I’m wondering how long I can milk this solitude thing, because I really prefer it to forced socializing.
Someone I used to work with last week announced that he is getting a new position in Square. I was excited and yet a little fearful. Fearful because for the last 25 years he has only ever had public facing positions.
So his back up plan was to see how it goes, and then maybe get a part time bar tending position. I’m not sure how any of us that spent our lives in retail or other public facing jobs could just switch to not having to deal with the public. What do you all office type people talk about, if it’s not to complain about the customers, or the newest book releases?
Those ideals never come into conflict.
ETA: reminds me of, now don’t laugh, “Liberal Fascism”.
Not saying there aren’t earnest people espousing such beliefs. Just not taking them seriously. Maybe literally.