Esp. the 2020 US presidential election, and others where right wing governments were (and will soon be) punished for anti- public health and safety, anti-science, ignorant approaches to pandemic response.
Do politicians and their advisers get this yet? In most households, it is one or more women who take basic health and safety seriously, & who develop a superior knowledge base due to our more complex biology, higher rates of illness, & greater need for infection control measures.
Of course there are many men with the same health knowledge and risk management priorities as women, but we are talking about "in general" here, and how that applies to elections.
Politicians, when you lie to the public about a pandemic, you make Mama angry. And if Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
I'm not even a Mama and I got angry when politicians got in the way of a science-based pandemic response, and sacrificed the lives of millions of people.
I will never forget it. Countless lives that could have been saved, particularly in the US, UK, Brazil, and India, were sacrificed to the cause of naked partisan self interest. Not even for the party; for the individual leader and his extremist faction.
Here is the solution:
Require their political party to completely and meaningfully reject the extremist faction. And when they don't, you must expose the enabling party members for what they are.
The more functional a democracy is, the lower the pandemic death rate will be.
Just look at the data.
TWO full years ago Americans overwhelmingly told Donald #T**** #YoureFired, and he still won't face the fact. He is a #CryBabySoreLoser, a wounded narcissist playing the victim, and an obvious, known, fascist.
Require each and every GOPer to denounce him and his fascist intent.
Notice how they prevaricate, how they dance around the issue.
They pretend his words don't matter, and that he probably won't become the party nominee for 2024.
They said the same in 2016.
Pro-democracy Americans are far past the point of believing such flagrant Republican party lies.
Soon it will be the 250th anniversary of 1776.
Put the work in now, to keep the Constitutional democracy that so many people died for.
Gotta laugh, my tweet generated the following reply from a maga account:
"Ukraine flag in bio"
Ad hominem/genetic fallacy is all they have. They deflect by targeting the player not the ball. Because playing the ball is too hard for them. It requires honesty & courage.
I'm talking about changing the way domestic violence incidents are handled, and doing more to put long term distance between known DV offenders and their legal access to guns.
An idea best espoused by the outstanding @BeauTFC. Link to follow.
The outstanding @BeauTFC talked about this issue here:
I wonder what price between $8 billion and $44 billion Elon Howard Hughes Musk might consider to sell this vital pro-democracy communications hub before he completely destroys it.
I mean, that's his goal, right?
He paid waaaay too much for it. Value currently estimated at $8 billion. Surely there are billionaires out there with the ability to build a consortium to entice it out of his grubby little hands?
There's a good argument for the US federal government buying it, too...
Or a group of countries. It's not all about the US, you know.
What does the Putin regime have on Musk, that could get him to over-spend so much money? The global fascist movement is the only winner out of this. Or was it the Mercers?
Supporters of the former guy who say his tax records should remain private are missing the point. The records show evidence of longstanding white collar crime, which exposes the fact they fell for a scam & enabled a Kremlin-compromised, violent traitor.
>longstanding white collar criminal
>scammer
>Kremlin-compromised
>violent
>traitor.
Each of those points is supported by a massive amount of credible evidence. One label would be enough, but he is all five.
As an empathic, educated person it was still possible for me to believe the lies, until it wasn't. The nature of the scamming, manipulation, gaslighting & brainwashing was & is such that many otherwise good people are still in it's thrall. That is heartbreaking to their families.
I am survivor of narcissistic abuse by more than one person. Learning about narcissistic personality disorder and related behaviors changed my life. I now feel confident I can protect myself from such people in future.
"The personal is political." -1970s activists.
Entire countries have fallen under the spell of leaders with NPD & other serious disorders.
IMO the view that Donald T*** and Boris Johnson show signs of such disorders is science-based & highly credible. In 2016 Bandy Lee MD sounded the alarm about T****. I didn't listen.
I think the best thing the Tories could do right now is to bring back Theresa May, as a caregiver PM, and call a snap election.
Clement Attlee 2.0: It's time; for Keir Starmer to win that electoral mandate, and get the country recovering.
D'oh! Caretaker PM is the term I meant to use above, not caregiver PM, lol. See, I am informally a kind of caregiver for elderly family and I'd been reading about the subject when I happened to write the tweet. I don't even like the term. "Assistant" is more empowering...
The language we use for disability, impairment, and healthcare matters. I can (and do) tweet about it all the time.