I'm a non believer living in a major US city. I started studying this COVID thing as soon as it made the news. By the time March 2020 rolled around I was already seeing that it was not what it was claimed to be. By April I was warning anyone (friends, colleagues and sometimes strangers) who would listen that it was a scam and how they could protect themselves.
I find that both the left and the right can have their useful idiots but obviously this dynamic is much more prevalent on the left.
Examples of the right getting taken are people who still have problems seeing through the neocons. Evangelicals are a literal Armageddon death cult who put a certain country in the Middle East ahead of actual US interests. The Qanon people who unfortunately were badly taken in because they failed to use rudimentary common sense about listening to unknown forces who could not be questioned or verified.
I find a lot of people both on the left and on the right still do not understand the political spectrum of which they are a part. These people still routinely align themselves around personalities, parties and associations instead of merit tested ideas.
I'm not anti religious which is precisely why I don't call myself an atheist, I call myself a non-believer, that is because over the course of my life I've noticed that the most vocal (and annoying) atheists are leftists (example Bill Maher). However if you are astute you will have realized that there is a lot of room for people who are not vocal and also not religious. We don't go around telling people what to think and instead find ways to talk to people to create dialogue through questions and honesty.
I'm a non believer living in a major US city. I started studying this COVID thing as soon as it made the news. By the time March 2020 rolled around I was already seeing that it was not what it was claimed to be. By April I was warning anyone (friends, colleagues and sometimes strangers) who would listen that it was a scam and how they could protect themselves.
I find that both the left and the right can have their useful idiots but obviously this dynamic is much more prevalent on the left.
Examples of the right getting taken are people who still have problems seeing through the neocons. Evangelicals are a literal Armageddon death cult who put a certain country in the Middle East ahead of actual US interests. The Qanon people who unfortunately were badly taken in because they failed to use rudimentary common sense about listening to unknown forces who could not be questioned or verified.
I find a lot of people both on the left and on the right still do not understand the political spectrum of which they are a part. These people still routinely align themselves around personalities, parties and associations instead of merit tested ideas.
I'm not anti religious which is precisely why I don't call myself an atheist, I call myself a non-believer, that is because over the course of my life I've noticed that the most vocal (and annoying) atheists are leftists (example Bill Maher). However if you are astute you will have realized that there is a lot of room for people who are not vocal and also not religious. We don't go around telling people what to think and instead find ways to talk to people to create dialogue through questions and honesty.
Anyway, sorry to bust up the party.