Why has the "Ebola crisis" divided along political lines?
What about it is so political that it pits the right and the left against each other?
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| Right Wing Ebola Pills |
I got it figgered out.
It is actually tailor-made for the WWJBD (What Would John Birch Do) crowd.
First and foremost, it's just the best thing ever for creating fear, and this is the
right's stock in trade. They just aint happy unless they are crying wolf while wearing
Chicken Little suits. They haven't figured out yet exactly how to tie ebola to socialism, but give them time.
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| The Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz |
Second, this is appealing to Republican politicians who now have the opportunity to portray themselves as "tough on plague." Bullies look for an easy mark, and the Ebola lobby is very weak.
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| Yippee |
Sure it's fun to vilify poor people for being poor because they are moral failures, but even filet and lobster gets boring if you have it EVERY day. So it's always good to have a new target to puff up about.
Additionally, those left-wing weenies are always prattling on about science, and we don't want public health policy based on something like science, for God's sake.
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| Godless Communist Scientist |
But the the best reason for it is what seems to be the right's only reason for existence. They get to blame Obama.
While watching them choke on their own vomit is amusing, one must wonder what Obama could do to actually gain some measure of approval.
He could:
1. Gather up all the West African Ebola victims
2. Then nuke West Africa (for good measure)
3. Air drop the Ebola victims into Isis strongholds (just for fun)
4. Then nuke Syria (just because)
5. Hang himself in the Oval Office.
And they still wouldn't be happy.
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| I'm touching myself. |
But Ebola is small potatoes...
compared to a REAL threat
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