Nationally, a study by Yale researchers determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.”

They are literally being deceived to death.

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      It’s literally an issue of them not understanding it. Most progressive policies when explained to them they agree with, they’ve just been taught to hate names. It’s just so hard to teach people.

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        This is pretty much it. The difference between a lot of younger people, and a lot of older people, is that while I will hear a term I don’t understand, and pause for a minute to research what it is, someone like my dad would go “I don’t understand any of this dogshit, get off my porch”

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      No cars either, if Moses can walk a desert for 40 years you can walk your ass to the quick-e-mart for your chewing tobacco and lottery tickets.