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Rasmussen Poll: 45% of Democratic Voters Favor Confining the Unvaccinated to ‘Designated Facilities’
Here’s the TLDR from a Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Report survey. For Democratic voters:
- 55% support fines against those who choose not to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
- 59% support house arrest for the unvaccinated.
- 48% support fines or prison for questioning vaccine efficacy on social media, TV, or the radio or in online or digital publications.
- 45% support temporarily confining the unvaccinated to “designated facilities” (cough) internment camps (cough).
- 47% support government tracking of the unvaccinated.
- 29% support temporarily removing parents’ custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Second look at a national divorce?
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I just copied and pasted onto Facebook the percentages you quoted in the opening of your post. Moments later I get the dreaded warning:
So I posted the link to the American Greatness article. 13 minutes later, no Facebook warning. So far so good. I don’t know which is more stupid: the warning or wearing a mask in your car with no passengers.
That the Democrats are becoming a proto-fascist party is, alas, no joke.
For the second time, the Democrats tried to make the Supreme Court a rubber stamp. The first time was when Mussolini admirer and imitator FDR was angry that the Court had knocked down some of his more fascistic economic policies.
Their January 6th committee refused to seat members nominated by the Republican minority: in effect, a fascist court with prosecution but no defense.
In hearings involving social media, the Republicans argue against censorship, while the Democrats demand ever more censorship.
The Democrats’ relationship to Big Tech is eerily reminiscent of Goebbels’ wisecrack about how Nazis are smarter than Communists: they take over industry, he said; we Nazis take over the industrialist. By all means, keep your monopoly and go on raking in billions — as long as you serve the (Democratic) Party.
Vaxed people spread a better more virtuous version of COVID unlike that racist unclean version the unvaxed spread.
Actually I get the masked in the car alone thing. If I was that stupid do you really want the world to see how stupid you are?
Perhaps Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland might shed some light on this matter.
We should remind them that their votes can be cancelled too by illegal means. Although it’s rare for that to happen from the Right in America.
They found a way to justify themselves.
The left loves it’s gulags
Interesting…the take-away from your post (as I read it) is the question of whether or not the current “cold civil war” between the Left and Right will result in some form of permanent separation and division within the country? However, nearly the whole thread of comments (up to 30 at the time I’m writing) are all about vaccine efficacy or lack thereof, and how the “Blues” will use the VAX status to strengthen the coercive power of the state. Okay, but so what?
Is this grounds for pursuing a some constitutional pathway or mechanism for a peaceful division of the country? (@vthek – if I’m wrong on this, please let me know.)
We know the answer to that one, but many people now are shameless, don’t care or clueless.
“Second look at a national divorce?” was more in the spirit of “How can a country this divided stay together?”
Yes, it is. Genocide always begins with the genocidal faction howling about how they are being victimized and oppressed by their future victims. It was certainly true of Nazi Germany. Stalin complained about how the kulaks were trying to starve the people before he starved them to death and murdered them. Pol Pot always accused the people he had killed of being “enemy agents” or “bad elements”. And on and on. The complaints of genocidal groups against victims of genocide are usually a pack of lies and exaggerations, just like this time.
“Scratch a Democrat, find a totalitarian,” has been an adage for a long time. It’s amazing how true that turns out to be when these people imagine themselves to be in duress.
According to PSAs, it’s proven that the unvaccinated are sick and carriers for life. (It’s a fact. I saw it on the Simpsons.)
Internment camps for hamsters? That’s wrong.
I didn’t know Goebbels had said that. Thx.
We should probably make them go around with a bell yelling, “Unclean!”
Cancel Culture is rehearsal for Genocide
You wouldn’t want people to suffer any harm due to the fact of your existence, would you?
Made them look bad?
Some observers have commented seriously in media sources on how much the attitude toward the “unvaccinated (re Covid)” is beginning to resemble the treatment of people with leprosy in times of old and in less-developed parts of the world today. But I guess if you’re willing to put them in concentration camps, I guess ostracizing them from society isn’t any worse.
I was born in 1950 and had parents that always had newspapers, magazines and newspapers as well as books on history around. I’ve had friends, girlfriends and wive(s) of German heritage. All these years I’ve had trouble understanding how, really, the horrors of 1933 to 1945 could be perpetrated by the German nation. I now know and it makes me angry and sad to see it happening here. Especially for my grandchildren. Glad I’m 71 and not 21.
The bad news is that the schools and universities continue to turn out kids brainwashed into thinking socialism is fine while individual liberty is fascist and equality under the law is racist.
Satiric posters recently appeared on walls in Washington DC:
Link doesn’t work.
I think slave labor is their goal . . .
I would maintain that the Democrats are almost entirely there: Totalitarianism is an entirely mainstream “value” in the Democratic Party. Even Democrat voters who I am told are “mainstream” and “reasonable” will condemn as “fascism” and “racism” anything that stands in the way of their far-left agenda. And when was the last time a Democrat spontaneously condemned the far left?
Well, no: Getting vaxxed does reduce your likelihood of getting it, and reduces the likely severity if you do get it.
But the fascistic Democrats aren’t just condemning those who claim the vaccines are completely useless: They condemn and silence those who point out that the promise of 100% effectiveness was exaggerated from the start, that possible side-effects were hushed up, that there are possibly useful theraputics, that it is likely that the virus originated in a Chinese lab, that masks are useless, that masks are highly effective, that the need for vaccination should be calculated based on age and other risk factors, and so on.
How do we know this? The symptoms of COVID range from “death’s door” to “I have what? I feel fine!” And this is true across a wide age range. A friend of mine in his 80s had it and never had a clue. And then we have people in their 40s die from it. So . . . on what basis can anyone claim that getting vaxxed means you’ll have less severity when the severity of a case is all over the map? Seems like a non-falsifiable claim to me.
Epidemiologists make such determinations by doing statistical analyses of medical data–which is in fact how much human medical research is done: Behind all those “studies show” news stories are actual medical studies whose results nearly always involve responses to drug therapies that range from “no improvement” to “great improvement”, and which must be compared to control groups of patients which did not receive the treatment.
The Democratic Party’s attitude towards all dissent: