RED STATE, BLUE STATE -- DUMB STATE, SMART STATE

 

In 2013, Bobby Jindal, the former GOP governor of Louisiana, said of the GOP:

"We have to stop being the Stupid Party."

Well, the Red State Trumpublicans still haven't taken his advice.

The Trumpublican red states have the highest infection and death rates of the COVID Delta variant because they bought into anti-vax lies spread by their leaders. It's a shame they didn't have the intelligence to go with the science and not the stupid leaders of the Stupid Party

"Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that as of July 23, the 20 states with the highest vaccination rates (counting the District of Columbia as a state) all voted for President Biden. 

 A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of CDC data found that as of July 6, the average vaccination rate in counties that voted for Biden was 46.7 percent. In counties that voted for Donald Trump, the vaccination rate was 35 percent."

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"Three states — Florida, Texas and Missouri — accounted for 40 percent of new covid cases last week. It’s the new political geography of sickness and death." --E.J.Dionne

The cynicism of these Republicans is astounding. They encourage anti-vax b.s. among their voters to "own the libs," and now, as they realize they are killing their own voters; and realize that even gerrymandering and voter suppression will not fix that problem, they have a different take. 

Florida Governor DeSantis stands at the head of this Army of the Dead. Their president spent millions to accelerate vaccine research, production, and supply. Then his whole party turned against using the vaccines just because President Biden spearheaded the distribution. They don't want to give Biden a "win" -- a win that would save people's lives, so they won't vaccinate!

How can people be so stupid?

I will answer my own question: The GQP continues to be The Stupid Party.