Maybe They are On to Something
As you well know, I am not into conspiracy theories. I tend to think those theories arise from people who want to do damage to an individual or group or from someone who is just extremely frustrated and needs to create something to quell that frustration. Whatever the case, I don’t believe in them…Except, maybe.
I have a friend who is extremely right wing. No, he doesn’t belong to the Proud Boys or any other group of potential anarchists. He just has some very deep rooted feelings about certain things and I dismiss his banter when he starts. However, after some deep reflection, I think he may be on to something.
He has refused to get vaccinated. He may or may not wear a mask depending on what side of the bed he wakes on. As I have said repeatedly, I think it is an individuals right to get vaccinated or not. Science has proven the value of getting vaccinated and that is good enough for me. I got it, I feel better about getting it. Case closed.
The explanation my friend has given is this highly suspicious theory that has something to do with George Soros and mind control and slowly turning conservative-God fearing Americans into this leftist, quasi Socialist bunch of Communists. Huh? What is he talking about? Again, another instance where I shut down and don’t listen to him. Ravings of a lunatic it seems.
Maybe it isn’t.
I have been catching myself reading the New York Times again. Sports (all two pages of it) and reading, but not agreeing with, the Op-Ed writers on voters rights, redistricting, mask mandates and so on. I found myself watching CNN and wondering how did I get here?
The surest sign is the fact that I am actually reading and enjoying Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. Now if ever there was a book a conservative should toss on the trash heap or the book burnings in Orwells’ 1984, this would be it. Yet, I am reading it. I think my enjoyment of this book stems more from the fact that Ms. Wilkerson is such a gifted writer and not so much her spearing my whiteness with a sound and very sharp spearhead. I am halfway through and prior to getting the vaccine, I wouldn’t have made it past chapter one.
One last indication is that I only read the NYPost for Page Six (I have some need to know what Kanye is up to I guess) and the sports section. I go past the Op-Eds, I go past the 27 pages describing how New York is being flushed down the toilet. Give me my daily picture of Bella Hadid and I am ok.
This can’t be from maturing can it? From what I understand, as you get older, you become more conservative so it has to be the vaccine.
I sensed this transformation during the summer but fearing it might be true, I pushed it to the back of my mind and as the summer wore on, I was back to my old self. Hating Socialists and finding no common ground with the left, I thought, “hey I am ok”. I am no card carrying member of “brother John Birch Society” but I still had my conservative ideals intact. Then, I received the booster shot and I was back looking at and admiring SenatorsWarren, Schumer and God forgive me, Nancy Pelosi.
It’s that damn Soros I tell you. I need a shot of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity Stat.
From experience, I know this attraction to liberal ideas will fade and I will be that Capitalist Ideologue you have known and loved for the last year and half. Just don’t ask me to get another booster shot.