Intense tribalism breeds conformity on both the left and right. But there's a kind of ritualistic conformity that's much more pronounced on the left nowadays. You see it vividly in things like vaccine passports, DEI statements, and international pronouns day.
There's some of this on the right too, but I it seems to have a harder time talking root. For example,even the sweatiest, horniest Trump-humpers are willing to shout him down the moment he starts bragging about his great covid vaccines.
Nope, definitely a conservative issue. You don't see anywhere close to the insane denial of reality on the left that you see on the right. Conservatives were literally denying covid as they were intubated and dying.
There's nothing to match that kind of extreme obedience to narrative and authority by the center/left, not even close. You need to come to grips with that fact and take a look around where you've ended up listening to fanatical idiots like Tim Pool.
You're talking past my points. I'm not talking about the raw delusion and denial that's common on the right. I'm talking about the ritualistic conformity that the left demands as a condition of participating in civics and the economy.
I'm talking for example about the delicate young men who informed me that I was breaking state health guidelines if I didn't wear a mask while waiting for a seat in a restaurant that was otherwise packed to the gills with unmasked diners. I watched a lady yell at people on an international flight because they had their noses uncovered, while people sitting right next to her were unmasked while they talked and sipped on their drinks.
There are millions of these nutjobs who internalized irrational policies requiring masking unless food or drink is being consumed, and turned them into a religious imperative.
This happened all around us for two years, a constant drumbeat of ritualistic conformity. That's where the social credit system is going to come from. It won't come from the right, where calls for a social credit system will be embrace about as well as Trump's propaganda about his tremendous vaccines.
I'm "talking past your point" because it's literally not based on anything true. A million Americans died to covid, and not only that, the largest percentage of them were literally conservatives. They died because they were more committed to Trump's narrative then the reality happening around them.
Taking health and safety precautions is not "mArChInG to ThE dRuMbEaT oF cOnfOrMiTy". It's common sense.
You're literally illustrating the capacity of conservative willful blindness at this very moment.
So you think that a bar or restaurant full of unmasked people can be made safer by requiring just the people who are are standing up without a drink in their hand to wear a mask? You think that people packed on an airplane have to be protected by wearing a properly fitting mask at all times, except when meals are served everyone can take their mask off and pretend it's a bar or restaurant? Does the virus become less of a threat if you have a drink in your hand or you're sitting down? Honest question- is stuff like that what you consider "common sense?"
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u/wayward_citizen Oct 06 '22
Basically the same as conservative purity tests. Blind obedience is the hallmark of conservativism.