President Biden will announce a new rule Thursday from the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to require all private employers with 100 or more employees
y'know considering all the antivaxx and lolbertarian sentiment
Americans, especially Texans, are incredibly docile. We're conditioned into accepting anything so long as we're convinced it will be temporary, but even if it's not temporary, we can be convinced only the worst parts are temporary.
At best there will be a few purely symbolic protests that do nothing. There might be one or two lone wolf instances of some libertarian style idiot shooting himself in the foot in a police confrontation.
When the open up protests happened, it seemed like a few wackos. But it ended up being funded by right wing billionaires in an attempt to do Tea Party 2. That was enough to relax curfews and restrictions. We never got a mask mandate, never got a true lockdown. As soon as the thought even crossed someones mind there was a group of chuds at the state capital and one the streets to put up an opposition. Then the media covered it because they think everyone just laughs at these people.
What I'm getting at is don't underestimate them. Democrats cannot really oppose the right. Joe isn't going to send the National Guard to beat down chuds on national TV like the BLM/Floyd protests. Instead they'll either mock them until getting beat by them. Or they'll just symbolically oppose the protests while getting trampled by right wing populism. These are the perfect conditions for figure to emerge and turn this shit into some kind of movement. The money will fall behind it and that's it. A few silly protests we laugh at suddenly become the right wing party.
It has nothing to do with them personally and individually being docile. It's okay to be docile when everything is stacked in your favor. You don't have to be a full on murderous prick to get your way. Just complain enough. In a few years it won't be vaccines vs no vaccines it'll be lynching general practitioners over measles vaccines vs maybe we should just ban vaccines.
Americans, especially Texans, are incredibly docile. We're conditioned into accepting anything so long as we're convinced it will be temporary, but even if it's not temporary, we can be convinced only the worst parts are temporary.
At best there will be a few purely symbolic protests that do nothing. There might be one or two lone wolf instances of some libertarian style idiot shooting himself in the foot in a police confrontation.
When the open up protests happened, it seemed like a few wackos. But it ended up being funded by right wing billionaires in an attempt to do Tea Party 2. That was enough to relax curfews and restrictions. We never got a mask mandate, never got a true lockdown. As soon as the thought even crossed someones mind there was a group of chuds at the state capital and one the streets to put up an opposition. Then the media covered it because they think everyone just laughs at these people.
What I'm getting at is don't underestimate them. Democrats cannot really oppose the right. Joe isn't going to send the National Guard to beat down chuds on national TV like the BLM/Floyd protests. Instead they'll either mock them until getting beat by them. Or they'll just symbolically oppose the protests while getting trampled by right wing populism. These are the perfect conditions for figure to emerge and turn this shit into some kind of movement. The money will fall behind it and that's it. A few silly protests we laugh at suddenly become the right wing party.
It has nothing to do with them personally and individually being docile. It's okay to be docile when everything is stacked in your favor. You don't have to be a full on murderous prick to get your way. Just complain enough. In a few years it won't be vaccines vs no vaccines it'll be lynching general practitioners over measles vaccines vs maybe we should just ban vaccines.