Well, when I made the decision to get vaccinated <snip> I did it based on my own research and my own unique circumstances. Turns out I was right to be vaccinated.
And that's fine. But for most of the Woke, they refuse to allow everyone else that same option. It's either "get the jab or consider yourself an enemy of humanity". You can't make decisions for yourself any more---you will either submit to the will of the collective, or face complete ostracism. I am not saying this is how
you view things; I am saying this is how the
Woke view things.
In our case, my wife chose to forego vaccinating because she suffers from atrial fibrillation and extreme tachycardia, and the vaccines have a record of killing people with heart irregularities. She was a lot more afraid of dying of the vaccine than she was of Covid. As for me, I am old enough to remember the Swine Flu outbreak in the 1970s and the number of people who were killed by the vaccine that the government rushed into production. I am also old enough to remember the Persian Gulf War, and all of the troops who were given experimental vaccines, and are suffering conditions because of them to this very day. I don't trust Covid vaccines, and so I have made the informed decision for myself to forego it.
While I don't agree with Clapton that it applies to everyone universally or that it's about subliminal messages in ads, I do believe there is something to the "
mass formation psychosis" that has gotten so many to
unquestionably believe the narratives surrounding the vaccine and the mandates and other topics. I am willing to believe there is something to this psychosis considering the general degree of insanity surrounding propaganda and the inability for so many to distinguish between objective reality and delusion.
I quite agree. The last time we saw this many people openly embrace a standard line to this extent, Poland was invaded. "If you repeat something enough times, people will start to believe it."
Used to be that liberals said they may disagree with someone but would fight for their right to say it.
Ah, but that was then, and this is now. We left Mayberry behind a long time ago.
Hey, me too. Not a member of the two big polarities. I was though. I was a Democrat, and then a Republican but now, thankfully, am neither.
I went through the same cycle, chevy. My parents were staunch Roosevelt-Truman Democrats; I was influenced by them until I went into the military. I voted for Ronald Reagan because he favored a strong defense. By the time I was 30, I was not exactly a Republican, but I was certainly a conservative independant. Today, I am in favor of jettisoning both of our major political parties, which are so corrupt that they are unsalvageable. I'd like to see parties that adhere strictly to the Constitution, but I am also realistic (cynical?) enough to acknowledge that short of second American revolution, that's never going to happen.
