re: i don't understand how wanting/not wanting to stay locked down

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has become a democrat/republican thing. ive even seen posts on other sites from Dem business owners saying they would rather lose their business than open early. i just don't get how this specific topic has become political.

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Pretty easy to explain. The devil himself couldn't lose a presidential election as an incumbent, with the economy roaring, people making more money than they ever have, having more disposable income, and taking better/longer vacations. Just doesn't happen. So this virus was politicized almost from the beginning, not only by the socialist democrats trying to make hay over how Trump handled the situation, but it was quickly recognized that this could be the very device they needed to crash what was a booming economy.

Which is why you are seeing the blue areas doing everything they can to make the problem worse, make the problem seem even worse than that, (worse than it ever was going to be) and dragging their feet in the effort to normalize, and return to the roaring economy we had when it started.

Surely you realize that the socialist democrats don't give a flying shite about how much harm they are causing the American people by doing so. It's not like their own propaganda arm, the media, is going to hold them to account for it. And if your lifetime has ever taught you anything about socialist democrats, it should be the knowledge that for them, the ends ALWAYS justifies the means, because they never suffer consequences.