In order to have common ground, both sides first have to agree it exists. Compassion, understanding, and sympathy can be met with outright hostility for only so long before it turns to hostility in kind. We’re 18 months or whatever into this, and one side’s begged, pleaded, and bribed to try and get us to the other end of the pandemic. We’ve been met with “fuck you” the entire time. Literally the entire time. We got a perfect display of it last night when Mr. Minnesota or whatever his name is was twisting himself into knots simultaneously arguing about how Biden was handling the pandemic. His position is literally whatever the opposite of whatever Biden is doing because of “the libs.”
A lot of us have done our part and we’re suffering because a lot of us ~won’t~. Not can’t, but won’t. It’s ok for those of us that have tried to do the right thing to be flat out fucking over it at this point.