You know I had to look it up and I’m not sure I support centrism - which while not right minded get rid of government conservative, is meant to to keep a certain social status quo in place. I’ll go back to using middle ground and compromise.
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Coronavirus, face masks and America's new fault line
Face masks, it seems, have become a new fault line in America.
Face masks have become the new divide between republicans and democrats and it's only intensifying.
People who are republican tend to not believe in the science behind why you should wear a face mask, do not like the government telling them what to do and have a mistaken belief that being told to wear a face mask is unconstitutional. They will fight for their so called right to not wear one. They have been calling democrats "sheeple" for listening to the health experts and wearing one.
This is the anti-science party. This is what they do.
Literally.
For a good long while there, we as a society got very lucky that the anti-vaccination coalition didn’t map very well onto the basic partisan divides (including as it did a spicy melange of your anti-gummint conspiracy theory types, San Francisco wheat germ moms, et al). I was afraid for years that it would tip over into an outright culture war issue (no real mystery about which side would end up being home to the “scientists are wrong” team), at which point there was no question in my mind that people would be giving their kids measles to own the libz.Coronavirus, face masks and America's new fault line
Face masks, it seems, have become a new fault line in America.
Face masks have become the new divide between republicans and democrats and it's only intensifying.
People who are republican tend to not believe in the science behind why you should wear a face mask, do not like the government telling them what to do and have a mistaken belief that being told to wear a face mask is unconstitutional. They will fight for their so called right to not wear one. They have been calling democrats "sheeple" for listening to the health experts and wearing one.
Coronavirus, face masks and America's new fault line
Face masks, it seems, have become a new fault line in America.
Face masks have become the new divide between republicans and democrats and it's only intensifying.
People who are republican tend to not believe in the science behind why you should wear a face mask, do not like the government telling them what to do and have a mistaken belief that being told to wear a face mask is unconstitutional. They will fight for their so called right to not wear one. They have been calling democrats "sheeple" for listening to the health experts and wearing one.
A couple of weeks ago I went to pick up a pizza, leaving my property for both the first time in a week and the first time since everyone started wearing them in NY. So I got halfway there before I realized I had forgotten my mask. I was the only person on line, and the only person I could see on the “Main Street” of my town, who didn’t have a mask on. I felt like a real dipshit and haven’t forgotten my mask again.
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Yes, thank you for explaining it better than me. Looking back I see that my little story could have been read to mean that the “why” was “so you won’t feel like a dipshit” when what I meant was “so you can help us dipshits act like we’re supposed to.”
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I've supported just about everything DeWine has done up to this point, but this is a disastrous decision.It's not hard hit blue states that are in financial trouble due to COVID-19. States like Ohio are as well.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announces $775m in state budget cuts to education, Medicaid and more
Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday the state will cut nearly $800 million in spending — most of it education and health care — to offset the loss of tax revenue stemming from the coronavirus crisis.
Cuts include:
- $210 million from Medicaid
- $300 million from K12 schools
- $55 million from other education budget items
- $110 million from higher ed
- $100 million from all other agencies
Let's make huge cuts to Education and Medicaid to try to balance the budget.
“Of all the lies politicians tell, the notion that progress can only happen if we come together as moral and political equals is possibly our favorite. It is the lie we most want to be true because it is the lie that brings the rest of the lies we tell ourselves about our country and our history into coherence.”
Bipartisanship Won’t Save Us
Politicians and pundits are always lamenting the division in Washington. Well, Congress came together to address the coronavirus crisis—and failed.
I’m not the first to point this out but what makes the “warrior” thing particularly crazy-making is that, metaphorically speaking, by going out in public when you don’t need to you’re fighting for the other side.
