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Relating political affiliation to masking and vaccines is a

Sep 21, 2021, 6:03 AM

fallacy. The narrative being spun (mainly by the MSM) is that all the anti-vaccine and anti-mask folks are Republicans. This narrative is largely BS but gets a lot of play from the media wonks who want to continue to politicize this disease.

There are essentially three main reasons people are refusing to get the vaccine:
1. They are afraid of what the vaccine will do to them
2. They aren't convinced it works
3. They don't trust the Government/Big pharma and therefore don't trust the vaccine

These three reasons are not tied to any one political ideology as it crosses over all of them. These are personal convictions that are not associated to political identity no matter how much the MSM wants you to believe it. For example, Black minorities comprise one of the largest groups (as a percentage of the population) who have yet to get the vaccine and yet we know their voting pattern averages around 90% Democrat. Democrats refusing to get the jab is definitely not within the MSM narrative being put forth...

Regarding masks - same thing. People either believe masks work or they don't. I know many staunch conservatives who won't leave their house without wearing one.

What drives me nuts is the MSM continues to sew discord among the population by falsely affiliating a persons health choices to their politics (vaccines and masks). It is simply a lie that they want to peddle in order to target a political group with an "anti-science" and they are to blame for COVID spreading characterization. When in truth - this virus is going to do what all highly contagious virus' do which is to spread and mutate...rinse and repeat.

So political affiliation really does not determine whether one gets the vaccine or wear a mask for a majority of people. I'm very conservative and got the jab as soon as I could - same goes for everyone in my extended family. My in-laws wear their masks religiously even after having the jab.

Where the political affiliations do creep in regarding COVID is how the Government dictates affect our Constitutional individual liberties. But unfortunately, the political class and MSM will blur these lines to tar anyone who doesn't believe in mandates as an anti-vaxxer or anti-mask which is simply not true. I can certainly be pro-vaccine and pro-mask but also think individuals should be allowed to make their own decisions as to what is best for them.

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print press (including the small town newspapers) in the USA. The vast majority of corporate media is controlled by the ideological left but it is also true that the "conservative" Fox and Sky News are also corporate MSM as well.

In order to fill their airtime and web pages they all play the same game - create discord in our society by taking the smallest of disagreements and turn them into gaping canyons of mostly screaming babble. Media driven narratives have now overtaken the facts and objective truth. The MSM modus operandi is to establish a narrative and ignore, obfuscate, or simply lie about anything counter to the narrative. The affect of all this is that journalism as a true profession no longer exists. They have become political agitators with ideological dogma to push.

When a majority of the press is committed to an ideological narrative in lieu of objective truth and factual reporting, society at large begins to distrust everything coming out of the media. If the condition lasts long enough the lack of transparency and truth will eventually deteriorate to the point that society distrusts it's very institutions because they know the media reporting on those institutions is narrative driven.

The elite political class love the modern day narrative journalism - it plays right into their hands. They know the will never be fact checked or challenged by their media allies and can always count on them to blast any opposition. There is a reason politicians stick to their like minded ideological media for interviews/access and very rarely (if ever) cross over to "unfriendly" media. The politicians love the echo chamber press and feed it daily. If journalists were true professionals, the politicians wouldn't be able play this game as there would be no safe havens in the media for these political elites and we the people would be much better served by the "power of the press".

I can only guess what the long term damage of an ideologically narrative driven, disingenuous media is going to be. However, we are already seeing that it has led to a culture of zero accountability from our Government. Regardless of who is running our Government (left, right, moderate) - when there is zero accountability in Government - a free society is in deep trouble.

Deep red Lexington County, SC....very interesting

Relating political affiliation to masking and vaccines is a

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MSM = Corporate media that controls 90% of the airwaves and

Re: MSM = Corporate media that controls 90% of the airwaves and

69%?

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