Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
About halfway through Donald Trump's speech in Alabama on Saturday night, something remarkable happened.
As Trump told the crowd that he would "recommend" they get the Covid-19 vaccine, people started to boo.
Consider how we got to that moment on Saturday night.
Trump spent the entirety of his presidency telling his followers that everything and everyone was fake except for him.
"Stick with us," he said at the time. "Don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. ... What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."
The message was simple: Doubt everything. From small facts to big ones -- including that the 2020 election was won by President Joe Biden fair and square.
Elites were always lying to you, always looking to make money or fame or power off of your back, according to Trump, the only way to fight back was to reject everything they told you to do or believe.
But see, the problem with the care and feeding of all those lies -- the Big one and all the rest -- is that the non-belief takes on a life of its own. People told that everything the government and the media say is a lie don't have the ability -- or the inclination -- to differentiate. If the government and the media lied about the 2020 election (sidebar: They didn't) then what wouldn't they lie about?
It's that mentality that leads people to boo vaccines that are more than 90% effective in preventing serious illness and death from a pandemic that has already killed more than 628,000 Americans. And to do so in a state that is fourth in the country in overall cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 people, and fifth in deaths per 100,000 people
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/politics/donald-trump-alabama-rally-vaccine/index.html
As Trump told the crowd that he would "recommend" they get the Covid-19 vaccine, people started to boo.
Consider how we got to that moment on Saturday night.
Trump spent the entirety of his presidency telling his followers that everything and everyone was fake except for him.
"Stick with us," he said at the time. "Don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. ... What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."
The message was simple: Doubt everything. From small facts to big ones -- including that the 2020 election was won by President Joe Biden fair and square.
Elites were always lying to you, always looking to make money or fame or power off of your back, according to Trump, the only way to fight back was to reject everything they told you to do or believe.
But see, the problem with the care and feeding of all those lies -- the Big one and all the rest -- is that the non-belief takes on a life of its own. People told that everything the government and the media say is a lie don't have the ability -- or the inclination -- to differentiate. If the government and the media lied about the 2020 election (sidebar: They didn't) then what wouldn't they lie about?
It's that mentality that leads people to boo vaccines that are more than 90% effective in preventing serious illness and death from a pandemic that has already killed more than 628,000 Americans. And to do so in a state that is fourth in the country in overall cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 people, and fifth in deaths per 100,000 people
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/politics/donald-trump-alabama-rally-vaccine/index.html
