Group (no) think
In today’s GOP, people just keep sharing their ignorance and prejudice until everybody is whacked enough to swallow horse pills
What pushed me over the edge? Was it the Trump rally crowd booing their hero for saying they should get vaccinated? Was it the latest Covid treatment snake oil pitched by the anti-science crowd, the horse de-worming medication Ivermectin? (You want a bleach chaser with that?) Or was it the rejection or overruling of mask mandates that would save lives as the Delta variant of the corona virus puts unvaccinated patients in ICUs across the country? Or the absolute rejection of the truth by the Republican core that the election was free and fair, and Donald Trump lost? Or all of the above?
Any of the above would be enough to deserve a cartoon. But all together they demand one.
What we are dealing with is a relative of group-think, the phenomenon that occurs when of a collection of people band together and have their thought homogenized without dissent. This, however is worse. It’s group no-think. It’s not about what the science says, it’s all about what tribe you belong to. The other group is wrong not because of the merits of their arguments, but because of who they are.The GOP says it rejects identity politics, but they are the leading proponents of policy by political identity in our country. If you can swallow horse pills, you can swallow anything.