From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:26:30 -0700 (PDT)   
   "(David P.)"  wrote:   
      
   > Johnny wrote:   
   > > By Eddie Scarry    
   > > Published June 28, 2022    
   > >    
   > > Nothing quite revealed what absolutely horrific human beings that    
   > > liberals could be quite like the COVID pandemic. The annoying   
   > > things they've always done—nag, whine, lecture, tattle—came with   
   > > the most precious gift in 2020: the backing, approval and moral   
   > > authority of the state, as it’s conceived in the left's mind.    
   > >    
   > > With the sanction of the government to insert themselves in   
   > > everyone else’s business, liberals felt free to pole vault atop the   
   > > highest soap box and reign down their most wretched sanctimony—all   
   > > in the name of "The Science."    
   > >    
   > > From their greatest hits list:    
   > >    
   > > "Where’s your mask?"    
   > > "You’re putting others at risk."    
   > > "Why are you traveling?"    
   > > "Stay home!"    
   > > "We’re all in this together."    
   > > "Follow the science!"    
   > > "Trust the science!"    
   > > "Six feet apart!"    
   > > "Practice social distancing!"    
   > > "Why don’t you wear your mask." (Always phrased as a question, even    
   > > though it wasn’t.)    
   > >    
   > > Insufferable is the word.    
   > >    
   > > It was like the end of "Grease" when Sandy—formerly a plain Jane,   
   > > now donning a leather jacket and makeup—suddenly has the nerve to   
   > > act like she runs the place. Except the audience loves Sandy for   
   > > going the extra mile to win a love interest. Liberals were simply   
   > > acting out their most exotic dreams of being able to tell everyone   
   > > what to do, snapping at innocent people while feeling good about   
   > > themselves. Nobody loved that or the people acting it out.    
   > >    
   > > This remained true even into 2021. In March of that year, a full   
   > > year after the initial pandemic alarm hit the U.S., Democrats and   
   > > liberals were still hyperventilating over its spread: 82 percent of   
   > > Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters believed the new coronavirus   
   > > was a "major threat" to the entire US population "as a whole,"   
   > > according to a Pew Research survey. Just half as many Republicans,   
   > > 41 percent, agreed. This was well after learning that COVID was   
   > > relatively harmless to the vast majority of us, with something like   
   > > a 98 percent survival rate.    
   > >    
   > > https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-loved-covid-pandem   
   c-they-wanted-you-love-it   
   > >     
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   > Their drug of choice is pushing people around and spending    
   > other people's money, and they can't get enough of it!   
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   The democrats' strategy is to divide and conquer, and their only weapon   
   is racism.  They are trying to convince people of color that racism is   
   rampant in this country.  Which is a lie.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)