SO true!!! Even my Dad, who is conservative, does this. At the start of Covid, I tried to talk to him about how this isn’t about a sickness, it’s about power/etc., and he IMMEDIATELY retorted with “well I don’t believe there is some overarching Cabal eating children and conspiring to take over the world.” I was honestly rendered speechless for a moment, I hadn’t mentioned either of those things. I responded with “You don’t have to believe that to believe that ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. Do you believe that? Do you believe there are bad people with money and power, just like there’re bad people without? Then it shouldn’t be a stretch for you to see that those same people would use this just like they use everything else: for control.”
SO true!!! Even my Dad, who is conservative, does this. At the start of Covid, I tried to talk to him about how this isn’t about a sickness, it’s about power/etc., and he IMMEDIATELY retorted with “well I don’t believe there is some overarching Cabal eating children and conspiring to take over the world.” I was honestly rendered speechless for a moment, I hadn’t mentioned either of those things. I responded with “You don’t have to believe that to believe that ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. Do you believe that? Do you believe there are bad people with money and power, just like there’re bad people without? Then it shouldn’t be a stretch for you to see that those same people would use this just like they use everything else: for control.”