It is flat out revenge

They saw the blue cities get hit first, way back in March 2020 and they hate blue cities, and the many of the people (BIPOC) who live in them.

They saw the people in the blue areas doing what needed to be done to protect our communities: social distance, mask, stay home.

They became opposed to those things.

Later to vaccinations.

While we try to keep as many safe as possible, they squander our hard work, and spew their covid-breath as far and as wide as they can.

Even as it kills them.

Why?

Stupidity is part of it. Having drunk the KoolAid urine, and gobbled the horse dewormer, they have shown themselves to have little to no access to basic common sense.

But why, time after time, the desire to stomp on any progress made, to squander, to set back.

Revenge.

Flat out revenge.

We deposed their Golden Calf (I won't make fat jokes, but, um, here it's really temping. I won't though.), and they will not forgive us. We've allowed -or so they think- open borders and millions of brown people into the country. We refuse to accept that children should go hungry. We insist that people have the right to health care. We demand access to the ballot box for all eligible American citizens. We have changed the economy from one of miners and farmers to one of tech workers. We want clean air and clean water and clean, zero emissions energy. We want to fight to avoid the catastrophic climate change related events from occurring. We try to make life better for people.

And by people. I mean... everyone. They could, maybe, forgive us if we only wanted good things for white people... but we want those things for the everyone.

And their racism does not allow them to accept that.

They have little power. What can they do? Vote for their gilded dog turd, and refuse to accept that he lost (or, as Biden would say, that he's the defeated former president, how I love that phrasaing).

But what they can do? Is prevent us from moving forward.

By the fillibuster in the Senate.

And by spreading Covid as far and as wide as they can. By keeping us hostage, keeping our lives, normalcy, hostage to the germs, they can exact revenge on us.