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I would include myself in that "liberal/lefty" group. I saw that several of the comments made prior to mine were blaming calculated conservative manipulation,
by dkarl 7y ago
I would include myself in that "liberal/lefty" group. I saw that several of the comments made prior to mine were blaming calculated conservative manipulation, and I wanted to point out that the misconceptions are also arising naturally on "our side" out of desire to promote compliance and optimism.
I didn't expect this issue to become political until I observed it happening. The political aspects of the issue have to be addressed, including the assumption that made-up facts can be benign if they're spoken by the right people with the right intentions.
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago> I didn't expect this issue to become political until I observed it happening. There seem to be people (on both sides) who care more about "winning" against the political "enemy" than they do about literally keeping people from dying. That frightens me, maybe more than the virus does.
- dkarl 7y agoI agree. I have a hard time with the news these days, and I was hoping that a bright side of the coronavirus would be that there would at least be some non-political news that I could follow and chit-chat with people about. Sadly, no.