By A recent poll reveals that among voters who have a “favorable impression of Biden”, 51% are in favor of the government putting the unvaccinated in “designated facilities,” and 54% favor imposing fines or prison sentences on vaccine critics.
In addition, half of Democrats polled feel that anyone who questions the government’s view of vaccines on social media should be jailed or fined.
I wonder how close those percentages are to the those that were in favor of Jews being sent to “designated facilities” in pre-WW2 Germany. Or to the percentages that were in favor of keeping slaves in “designated facilities” in the antebellum South. Or those that were in favor of dissidents being sent to “designated facilities” in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin or the laogai system of labor camps under Mao.
In these and countless other cases, part of the population was persuaded by ideologues to believe some other part of the population was unclean and less human, leading a large percentage of “good people” to collectively rationalize evil.
“But this time it’s different! It’s for public health!”
That sentiment rings hollow in a world where politicians don masks just off-stage, walk 20 feet to a podium, then take them off to speak. A world where governments bulldoze skate parks so that 10 people can’t skateboard outside, but encourage 10,000 to gather together for protests the next day – as long as the protests are for narrative-approved causes. A world where oligarchs impose lockdowns on their denizen rubes in New York City then proceed to go on vacation in Florida, or dine maskless in fancy restaurants while demanding the peasants cover their faces if they dare leave their homes.
A world where any reported side effects of vaccination are deemed coincidental (“correlation does not mean causation”), but if any vaccinated person has minor symptoms of Covid, all of a sudden correlation ALWAYS means causation and they’d be dead or in a hospital otherwise.
A world where you get deleted from the public square if you even mention your adverse reaction or question three-letter government agencies. Where hospitalization statistics are manipulated so that media outlets can air more sensationalized content.
President Biden, who fancies himself some great unifier, employs the exact same tactics as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao with his “pandemic of the unvaccinated” rhetoric, dehumanizing a large portion of the population in the face of the reality that the vaccinated still spread Covid. Desperate to find a scapegoat for his own ineptitude and for losing a war in which the premises of victory were badly miscalculated, he continues to double down on fomenting fear and division rather than ushering unity. Thus, it’s no surprise that many of his followers want to put the unvaccinated in “designated facilities” until they are sufficiently inoculated and re-educated.
So no, it’s not different this time. The calendar might read a different year. The czars in charge might go by different names. The perceived crisis might modify the mode of manipulation. But the grand intention is the same. And it’s disgusting.
Slavery didn’t exist in America because a few people wanted slaves. It existed because it was a practice inherited from a world that had collectively rationalized evil long before. None of the infamous tyrants the 20th century had any power by themselves – they only accrued power by manipulating the masses against a common enemy that they forged out of their own people. They convinced the convincible that some utopian end was greater than the means needed to get there, and if those means meant forced labor camps or mass graves, well, those (less human) people deserved it for not going along with the state-prescribed status quo.
To those in favor of imprisonment for anyone that comes to a different conclusion about what should be injected into their body; to those who say that thought should be controlled and opinion nationalized, I say unequivocally: Evil is still evil –
even when it’s collectively rationalized.
What do you think?