Why does the GOP disrespect healthcare workers?

[dolphins4life]

I used to be a Democrat. 

Then, I was drawn to the Republican party.  You all know why.

Several things have started to draw me back the other way

1) Tucker Carlson recently came out and ENCOURAGED people to have more children than they can afford.  This was surprising.  One of the main reasons I switched parties was because I was disgusted by people having children they can't afford.  Why would he say something like that?

2) The Capitol Riots.  One of the biggest scourges in our nation's history.  Not accepting a fair election and doing what they did was a disgrace to watch.

3) Their denial of climate change. 

4) Their disrespecting of healthcare workers.  Apparently, they don't seem to understand that healthcare workers are allowed, and in some cases, legally mandated, to take breaks during their workdays.  Apparently, they think healthcare workers are not allowed to have a little fun during their breaks, especially during tough times.  Apparently, they think if healthcare workers are not completely swamped during their shifts, the pandemic is bogus.  I myself recorded a couple of videos of myself singing last December during my shifts.  They have blasted nurses for uploading TikTok videos of themselves dancing during the height of the pandemic.  To me, that is disgraceful.

[stinkfish]

As someone who’s married to an RN and has been around health care for maybe 20 years, it’s disgraceful for a nurse, at work, when a pandemic is at its height, to be at the nurse’s station or anywhere on the floor, to be shaking their asses and bouncing their tits around for all to see on social media. Breaks for nurses aren’t black and white. A nurse may get to run to the break room for a quick bite of their meal, in between one of their 5 patients or so needing care. More nursing less ass shaking.
During the height of the pandemic, at least at my wife’s hospital, there was no time to blow off steam and have fun. Her hospital ran out of space in the morgue. They had to bring in a freezer truck type thing. Those dancing nurses had their priorities wrong.

[CF DolFan]

I used to be a Democrat. 

Then, I was drawn to the Republican party.  You all know why.

Several things have started to draw me back the other way

1) Tucker Carlson recently came out and ENCOURAGED people to have more children than they can afford.  This was surprising.  One of the main reasons I switched parties was because I was disgusted by people having children they can't afford.  Why would he say something like that?

I'm not familiar with this. Was he trying to be sarcastic or funny? The whole republican mantra is being self sufficient and accountable in taking care of yourself.

2) The Capitol Riots.  One of the biggest scourges in our nation's history.  Not accepting a fair election and doing what they did was a disgrace to watch.

70 million voted for Trump and a couple hundred stormed the Capital without guns. That's like blaming all Democrats for a few Arab terrorist.

3) Their denial of climate change. 

Climate change is real but the effects of it are not settled. There are many published and respected scientists who get silenced when presenting alternatives to the main street media. 

4) Their disrespecting of healthcare workers.  Apparently, they don't seem to understand that healthcare workers are allowed, and in some cases, legally mandated, to take breaks during their workdays.  Apparently, they think healthcare workers are not allowed to have a little fun during their breaks, especially during tough times.  Apparently, they think if healthcare workers are not completely swamped during their shifts, the pandemic is bogus.  I myself recorded a couple of videos of myself singing last December during my shifts.  They have blasted nurses for uploading TikTok videos of themselves dancing during the height of the pandemic.  To me, that is disgraceful.

I have a several very good friends that are in the Fire Dept with a couple even being Chiefs at this point. I learned a long time ago they have a sick sense of humor and that is a coping mechanism in dealing with the horrors they have to deal with. Scraping dead people off the tires of a semi trailer or pulling pieces of kids out of the remains of a car is not a normal thing. I suspect nurses dancing under stressful situations is probably a form of this.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

 70 million voted for Trump and a couple hundred stormed the Capital without guns. That's like blaming all Democrats for a few Arab terrorist.

Wow, how off could an analogy be?

Let’s see:

were any of the 9/11 terrorist democrats?  

Was the purpose of the 9/11 attacks to replace Bush with Gore?

Did the democrats attempt to block and then undermine the 9/11 commission?

Did democrats engage in the type of theater that occurred at CPAC with those responsible for 9/11?

Did democratic leaders actively encourage the terrorism like Josh H raising his fist?

Were democratic leaders actively involved in the planning of 9/11?

Do Democratic leaders routinely defend the actions of the terrorist on 9/11?

I don't recall Former president Clinton recording a birthday message for the 19 hijackers, but Trump did one for Ashli Babbitt
Ashli Babbitt, 35

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

The GOP is opposed to freedom.

The oppose your freedom of expression on breaks.

They oppose a women's freedom to make her own healthcare choice.

They oppose people having the freedom to choose who they marry.

They oppose people having the freedom to choose their own religion, expecting everyone to be Christian.

They oppose you having the freedom to choose to sit or kneel during a song.

They oppose the representative democracy.  Preferring minority rule. 

And they oppose you having freedom to eat healthy.  It their latest attack on personal freedoms the right is accusing Cracker Barrel of going "woke" and calling for a boycott because Cracker Barrel had the audacity to add a plant based sausage alternative to their menu.  Cracker Barrel didn't remove anything from their menu you can still get good old flesh based sausages.  But that isn't enough for the right.  They don't just want to right to eat what they want.  They demand you eat what they say you should eat.   

[CF DolFan]

The GOP is opposed to freedom.

The oppose your freedom of expression on breaks.

They oppose a women's freedom to make her own healthcare choice.

They oppose people having the freedom to choose who they marry.

They oppose people having the freedom to choose their own religion, expecting everyone to be Christian.

They oppose you having the freedom to choose to sit or kneel during a song.

They oppose the representative democracy.  Preferring minority rule. 

And they oppose you having freedom to eat healthy.  It their latest attack on personal freedoms the right is accusing Cracker Barrel of going "woke" and calling for a boycott because Cracker Barrel had the audacity to add a plant based sausage alternative to their menu.  Cracker Barrel didn't remove anything from their menu you can still get good old flesh based sausages.  But that isn't enough for the right.  They don't just want to right to eat what they want.  They demand you eat what they say you should eat.   

LOL ... you are a funny man. Obviously miserable but you are pretty funny.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

LOL ... you are a funny man. Obviously miserable but you are pretty funny.

I am not miserable.  And that wasn't meant to be funny.  The party that screams the loudest about liberty is the same group that wants to curtail curtail everyone's freedoms.

And I am sure you are thinking yeah, but the left wants to limit my ability to carry around an AR-15 or dump toxic substances into the river.  There is a difference.  The left generally support limiting behavior that potentially can harm other - pollution, firearms, deceptive business practices, second hand smoke, discrimination, etc.  Whereas the right wants to limit behavior that doesn't really doesn't effect anybody else - gay marriage, abortion, whether I take my hat off or not during a song, what books I read, plant based breakfasts, etc.

[Dave Gray]

We are going through a political shift -- we gotta let this play for a few years, but it's clear that the two major political parties are flipping on some things.  We'll see where it ends up, but it's very clear that the GOP has strayed from the "personal responsibility, individual freedoms, low taxes" party into some other thing.  They were supposed to be, on paper anyway, libertarian-ish and iwth some social conservatism to shore up the base.  It's hard to say, exactly, but it seems that there's definitely a move away from science, towards faith, and definitely a move towards authoritarianism.  I know that sounds like shade, and maybe it is, but it's true.  There seems to be a move towards the ends justifying the means.  They know what they want, so they're pushing towards getting those things, rather than convincing the populace to vote for those things.

Dems, on the other hand, have such a big tent, that they're hard to manage.

I really think that Dems should own drug (specifically marijuana) legalization and that will largely flip the personal freedoms rhetoric.  Also, I do feel that the Dems should adopt a platform to limit money for its politicians -- no stock trading in Congress -- stuff like that.

The parties switched on a lot of issues in the 1960s and the Dems became the more socially liberal party.  I think we're seeing another form of that now, but just for issues like religion and authoritarianism and personal life.  The idea that there's a GOP that's trying to take down institutions like the FBI and siding with Russia invading Ukraine and what really amounts to attempts to overthrow the government....I just don't think we saw this coming.

[Spider-Dan]

The former guy loves Russia, therefore the GOP loves Russia.
He doesn't like the FBI (because they served him with a search warrant), therefore the GOP doesn't like the FBI.
It's literally that simple.

The GOP is not shifting their policy position.  They didn't even bother releasing a policy platform for 2020!  Quite simply, they are beholden to the moment-by-moment whims of the great orange emperor.

[Dave Gray]

The GOP is not shifting their policy position.  They didn't even bother releasing a policy platform for 2020!  Quite simply, they are beholden to the moment-by-moment whims of the great orange emperor.

Trying to keep away from hyperbole, they did release a platform and it was to support Donald Trump.  It had to policy in it at all.  So, what they're doing is literally what they said they would do -- support him, no matter the cost.

They weren't always this way, though, that's my point.  There was literally a shift away from "these are our policy positions" to "our positions are to support a single person".  That is not my opinion.  It is literally their officially released platform from 2020.

Because Trump's positions don't align with the classic GOP platform, when this blows over, they'll have to decide whether they're going to adopt what he is or what they were...or something in between.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Has there ever been a politician in American history more dominating over a party as Trump? 

I know none have come close going back to Carter.  Reagan was incredibly popular within the Republican party and the country as a whole. But you didn't see the level of knee jerk defense.  Yeah republicans defended Reagan during Iran-Contra, but they didn't engage in the wild conspiracy claims you here today.

[Dave Gray]

Has there ever been a politician in American history more dominating over a party as Trump? 

Not that I know of.  But I think it's more about the population than it is about Trump.  In the past, when a politician got stink on them, you would distance yourself.  We've seen unpopular figures not talk at their own conventions, unpopular presidents don't help downballot candidates stump.  But something about Trumpism has caused the strategy to lean into the lack of popularity.  It's to laser focus your base and not only not try to win over the other side but to visibly and intentionally target, ridicule and harass them.  It's the opposite of the W. Bush "compassionate conservatism" where the head of the ticket reaches out to everyone, while you use your other people in your party as attack dogs for the other side.

The Dems are still that.  Biden goes out there trying to appeal to the middle and even like-minded conservatives on certain issues, while you have the most local politicians target the GOP as a a whole as damaging.

Trump never did that.

I think that's just a product of how politics is for that particular voting block.