In order to answer that question, one would have to wade into the management of covid, which SDN made clear in their policies and moderator actions, as have numerous state medical boards, it is our way or there are consequences. And that is part of the problem, state medical boards, public health and various med societies clearly said step in line - agree with us - and any other view points are wrong. We will take your license.
As long as these organizations are pushing draconian enforcement and leaving no room for discourse, or even post hoc analysis that maybe things were handled really, really wrong; and that there could have been a different handling means a very large swath of the country is aggrieved. Door ways open for RFK...
Conceptually people need to realize that covid era policies are similar to the Tuskegee experiments. An involuntary population that was experimented on without their consent. But this experiment was more than just an infectious agent, and it's disease course; it includes social, political, religious, parental, economics, etc variables. If you look at the previous 4 years from that lens, that viewpoint, you'll have a better grasp of how a massive chunk of the US population is simply pissed. Door ways open for RFK...
But as you question, how is this related to liberals being smug or not taking other's views seriously - it is the defining hallmark - the inability to think otherwise, that on one hand saying we are science. You don't know what you are talking about. Trust the science. Then on the other hand have data that clearly shows social distancing of 6ft was complete garbage but yet still pushing it - and not having the academic integrity to pivot quickly and say "we are sorry" 6ft social distancing is completely wrong. This disconnect - people notice and that leads to mistrust.
A similar topic, that illustrates mistrust. Your kids come home from public school, and now they have climate anxiety, or talking about colonizers and oppressors in their lexicon. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Parents don't send their kids to school to be the next privates in the Social Justice Warrior army. And when their voices aren't heard to their calls to knock it off, dial back the extreme rhetoric and keep things in the center - people get pissed. They over react because they met the smugness, and elitism that for you to disagree with our school curriculum you are a racist, fascist, etc and now we have rising numbers of home schooling. And secondly, rising numbers of movements to shift tax funds to private entities or home schooling - away from public schools. I.e. metaphorically they want to "burn down" the public schools that aren't teaching but indoctrinating. Door ways open for RFK...
Simply put - dems/liberals should have won the election. Hands down - but as long as elitism, and smugness persists where liberals can't even discuss the basics of addressing people's points directly - without attacking them verbally - and trying to at least go thru the exercise of donning the glasses of others - they will continue to have a pissed off population.
In some ways I shouldn't be trying to point out the conservative value with medicine in this forum, the basics of arguing people's points, because it will continue to provide political life to Trump et al and other conservative goals within the country.
Should dems/libs/left drop the elitism and smugness - they would be an unstoppable political juggernaut.
