Republican politicians banning mandates and ensuring their constituents will suffer and die, all to garner a brief thumbs up from Fox News, aid big business, and troll the opposition, is a truth that is so wildly horrific it’s almost impossible to really sit with for long.
Confronted with the fact that most of the GOP leadership and media class are vaccinated and enjoy the safety of mandates is a horror. It charges us to remember that so many of our crises are choices of pure greed and opportunism that override concern, empathy, and logic.
On tomorrow’s Muckrake Podcast we talk about rising fascism as corresponding with the wealthy seeing profit opportunities in marketing niches. And that’s what it comes down to. Grifters and opportunists prioritizing wealth and power over human lives.
The prospect of the Right sacrificing lives for profit rather than ideology is such a nightmarish possibility we regularly project motives onto them simply to believe there’s no way it could be so craven. But sometimes it is. It’s just opportunity.
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