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Why Are Republicans and Democrats So Divided Over the Coronavirus?
Townhall.com ^ | March 29, 2020 | Wayne Allyn Root

Posted on 03/29/2020 3:40:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

Obviously, we are a very badly divided nation: so divided we agree on virtually nothing; so divided we can't even talk to one another anymore; so divided one side doesn't believe in anything the other side says; so divided California, New York and Illinois might as well be on a different planet than Texas.

We can't even agree on how to respond to the novel coronavirus, and when to get back to business.

Check out the latest Rasmussen poll. Sixty-one percent of Republicans believe America will rise from the dead by Easter. Count me among them.

But only 41% of all likely voters somewhat believe the USA can get back to work by Easter. Among Democrats, the number must be in the teens.

In the past few days, President Donald Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans need to get back to work.

I have said repeatedly on my nationally syndicated radio show: "The business of America is business. It's time to get back to work because the deadly virus is temporary, but the economic disaster we're causing could last a lifetime and prove far more deadly in the long run."

Many conservatives such as myself have also pointed out that the mortality rates of the coronavirus have been greatly exaggerated. On Thursday, Dr. Deborah Birx, "America's Doctor," said the same thing in a press conference: There will not be millions dead in the USA. The math doesn't add up.

She reported how computer models predicting 500,000 dead in the U.K. have been downgraded to 20,000. She reported how the terrible death count in Italy just doesn't add up to millions of Americans dead, not even close.

President Trump and Republican businessmen like me remain steadfast and optimistic that we can start bringing this terrible pandemic to a close and be back to business (or at least a limited business rollout) by Easter.

It's not because we don't take this pandemic seriously but because we believe in our hearts that we can't allow the U.S. economy to die. We can't allow another Great Depression. We can't honor the sick or dying by losing our job, income and life savings.

Someone has to mind the store, keep the economy going, pay the bills and pay the taxes so that after we win this war -- and we will win -- there is something for the older, the weak and the vulnerable to come back to.

We believe in our hearts and souls there is a way to restart this economy and to do it carefully, reasonably and responsibly while protecting the oldest, weakest and most vulnerable.

Meanwhile, Democratic politicians and liberal Hollywood activists scream about millions dying and about keeping the nation locked down for months. And they call Trump and Republicans all kinds of terrible names.

What accounts for this difference? I believe I've figured it out. It's all about personality.

Most every Republican I know is positive, outgoing and relentless, won't take no for an answer and has can-do spirit. That's why so many Republicans are successful in the business world. That's why we're proud to create the jobs and pay the taxes. We are the workers, makers and producers of America. We turn lemons into lemonade. We see the glass as half full, not half empty. We love working. We see it as our American way of life. We desperately want and need to get back to work.

Democrats are the polar opposite. They are cynical, negative and always finding fault with America, capitalism and business. That's why conservative talk radio is so successful whereas there is virtually no liberal talk radio. It's just too negative, too dark, too depressing. Liberals are always complaining, offering no solutions other than bigger government.

That explains the differences in how we see the coronavirus. Republicans have everything to lose if they don't get back to work. We see our business, career, job as our calling in life, our baby. It is who we are. Taking that away from us is like death.

Democrats are made up of groups who don't see anything to gain by rushing back to work. Some of them didn't work before this crisis. Some are protected by union contracts and union pensions. Some work for the government -- and they have jobs for life. Some have lived on a welfare check for much of their life. Some want to be paid bigger checks for being unemployed than for working. In the end, they feel they can stay home, take no risk and have the government pay them.

It's a completely different mindset. Democrats depend on government. Republicans depend on God, prayer, self-reliance and personal responsibility. Our lives are wrapped up in our work. We're risk-takers. We must get back to work or risk losing everything we've worked our whole lives to build. It's what makes us who we are.

Yes, we're a divided nation. It's like we're from different planets. I'm proud to be from the planet where the glass is always half full, where America, with the greatest health care system in the world and the strongest economy in the world, will always prove victorious.

Yes, it's true that "the business of America is business." Let the people who want to get back to it get back to it.


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To: cba123

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21 posted on 03/29/2020 4:25:36 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Kaslin

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3829427/posts?page=46#46

we work...we hustle...and when the chips are down we help fix the problems or go where we are needed.

Where are all those virtue signaling liberals right now?


22 posted on 03/29/2020 4:32:55 AM PDT by EBH (DNC=Party NON GRATA)
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To: spetznaz

I blame on people who politicize EVERYTHING. From newspaper articles to businesses coming into existence to television shows everything is viewed through a lens of whether it helps or hurts Trump. This is a sickness which must be cured before we can ever come together as a nation again. And it’s very selfish on the part of the infected ... always about them and their political needs. Some people need to grow up and see the bigger picture.


23 posted on 03/29/2020 4:35:25 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: Kaslin

Abortion, open borders, tax everything, global warming (tax), Healthcare (tax) Redistribution (via taxes),reparations (tax)
Green New Deal (tax) entitlement programs (tax)
Basically, the leftist would tax EVERYTHING..if they could.
The Constitution is just a suggestion to the left and or doesn’t apply to them. Rule of law is just a suggestion to the left and or doesn’t apply to them. they left wants to end the EC.
90% of the media is nothing more than a propagandist arm of the democrat party.


24 posted on 03/29/2020 4:35:42 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: USS Alaska

We are a nation of Takers and Thankers


25 posted on 03/29/2020 4:36:55 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Kaslin

I agree and want to emphasize two things above and their implications;

The left has no confidence in the individual, or themselves. They cannot take a chance, live life, work toward something risking failure, and they psychologically NEED big brother to protect them. They however don’t realize the amazing benefits that come with self responsibility.

This virus ‘crisis’ is playing on people’s laziness. Forced vacation, big brother says stay home and watch TV. It is an excuse, a convenient excuse to be lazy, to binge watch the latest Ozark on Netflix, go on an alcoholic bender for two weeks and not go see your parents...

The Democrats strategy are playing on both these things, and hoping the damaged economy will play badly in Trumps re election.


26 posted on 03/29/2020 4:38:29 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: cba123

I have lost friends and family over my support for President Trump.


27 posted on 03/29/2020 4:40:24 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: cba123

Because:

SCAMDEMIC 2020


28 posted on 03/29/2020 4:41:14 AM PDT by 9422WMR (SCAMDEMIC 2020 Everybody be Kung Flu fighting!)
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To: Kaslin
PERSONALITY? Open your eyes. America is in a spiritual battle between good and evil. There is no compromise. The side that is elected to office in 2020 will seal America's fate.
29 posted on 03/29/2020 4:44:35 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: spetznaz; MinuteGal

“Problem is America is divided, and BOTH sides need to get their heads out of their asses and fix things. Once things are back to normal people can go back to acting the fool. Both sides.”

No it isn’t both sides, it’s one side, the Dems; liberalism is a mental disease. I hate moral equivalence, and you are practicing it. Stop giving credence to leftist thinking based all on emotions rather than logic, rationality and individual thought which is how conservatives think. There is no moral equivalence to be had. You are making excuses for those with a herd mentality and big gov’t mind think. There are good guys and bad guys, and you are making excuses for the bad side. Stop it.


30 posted on 03/29/2020 4:51:04 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald Trump, President for Life)
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To: Kaslin

That’s why a massive stimulus [spending] bill (it’s really just a tax in sheep’s clothing), the largest ever, makes some on the right a little more than uncomfortable.
Or, it should.
I know not all taxes are bad..although, massive taxes, especially when less taxes will do, are wrong.


31 posted on 03/29/2020 4:58:23 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Kaslin
"so divided one side doesn't believe in anything the other side says; so divided California, New York and Illinois might as well be on a different planet than Texas."

Well, I don't know how to tell you this but, Texas ain't that far behind the rest of those the dimocrapy holes..
The next election, as far as Texas goes, is going to be a real shocker......

32 posted on 03/29/2020 4:59:50 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: yldstrk

Don’t know your friends and family but wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t start coming back around once their guy gets back in.

I noticed liberal family and our friend’s liberal family all started coming back around once they got control of the House again. (Dirt bags).

I’ve also noticed more libs coming out of the woodwork since all these virus panic happened (probably think he is finished over this).


33 posted on 03/29/2020 5:00:19 AM PDT by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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To: Kaslin

Well, first of all Democrats are scum...


34 posted on 03/29/2020 5:00:27 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Kaslin

Because dim-0s want to use it to beat Trump, Republicans just want to beat the virus.


35 posted on 03/29/2020 5:01:27 AM PDT by weezel
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To: cnsmom

“Thankers”? Where?


36 posted on 03/29/2020 5:07:53 AM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: flaglady47; spetznaz; MinuteGal
I hate moral equivalence

Dittos

37 posted on 03/29/2020 5:09:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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To: yldstrk

Well I haven’t lost her, but it is very disappointing to me. Or frustrating.

I love her deeply. Always have, and always will.

But she seems to think differently.

It is puzzling to me, that much is for sure.


38 posted on 03/29/2020 5:20:45 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Kaslin
Meanwhile, Democratic politicians and liberal Hollywood activists scream about millions dying and about keeping the nation locked down for months. And they call Trump and Republicans all kinds of terrible names.


They are seditionists even in good times.
39 posted on 03/29/2020 5:27:15 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Kaslin

Forgot one thing....Conservatives are THE funniest people!
“Progressives” can turn a phrase but they are cruel and destructive


40 posted on 03/29/2020 5:42:05 AM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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