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This week I have been as horrified as everyone else with what transpired at the Capitol. What particularly struck me is that it happened at all.... and yet I (we) shouldn’t really be surprised....was it our ignorance or arrogance that caught us off guard? Ignorance because there’s been signs of discontent for awhile, and there’s been a continued beating of the “fear” drum feeding anger and lies to those starved for reasons and answers to why our lives have been turned upside down. Or arrogance because “no one would dare”...”you just don’t do that”...many of us are of an age where certain things just weren’t done... and yes, times change. But turning on your own government, storming the Capitol, all because you didn’t like the way an election turned out. Really? Ignorance of the mob, arrogance of a President? I guess we should be thankful in a way it was our own people turning on ourselves, as peaceful and seemingly easy as it was...for it surely could have been much deadlier.
January 22, 2021
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Has the pandemic affected your political views in any way? If so, how?
I don’t think it’s affected my political views that much but it has made me distrust in the government to a degree I never have before. Before, I had the belief that during times of hardship, the US would do the right thing by its people. That’s due to the privilege I have in my background, but as we get further into this crisis, I’m reminded of Tuskegee and the AIDS pandemic and my distrust that they are helping, or care enough to help, grows. I’m super pro vaccine, I’m a biology major, and want to work in a hospital, and at the same time I am so distrustful of the federal government at this point that I am not going to get that vaccine right away. They want to roll it out so low income communities and communities of color have “access first”. Maybe good intentions, but it’s not a good look. The major corona tests didn’t work well, the antibody tests aren’t checking for the right ones, they are so focused on results that they’re getting sloppy. I know enough about biology to know that you can’t get sloppy.
July 30, 2020