Give Me Liberty and Also Death

"If you were looking for an avatar of All-American Ignorance, one appeared in Denver this weekend, in the form of a woman leaning out of her truck to scream at a frontline healthcare worker that he should go to China if he wants communism. Imagine the outright gall it requires to scream at people who've spent weeks working around the clock trying to keep their fellow citizens alive—and watching many of them die—that they're somehow betraying the American Idea.

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The rest of this is delusion, cooked up by rich people who want the market to go back up and served to people who are scared and frustrated and, sometimes, selfish. (Also, sometimes they are Nazis, and sometimes they are members of far-right militia groups, though those protest attendees do not appear to be representative of the whole.) It is a symptom of a nation that has decided that what you want to be true might as well be true, and can become true if you just say it loud enough. It is also a convenient way to elide the fact that we are locked down almost completely, and will have to stay in lockdown longer, because of the president's complete incompetence and deranged self-absorption, which led him to play down the threat—saying cases would go to zero miraculously—while doing next-to-nothing for more than a month before the virus struck here in earnest".