Republicans Aren’t ‘Neanderthals’ but too often We are Woefully Bad Communicators
DTA / PJ Media / March 13, 2021
Joe Biden recently criticized two Republican governors in Texas and Mississippi for their decisions to lift mask mandates in their respective states, accusing them of “neanderthal thinking.” Conservatives understandably responded with outrage.
The overwhelming response from our side has been to point the finger at Democrats, whose thinking effectively makes Neanderthals look like Albert Einstein. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick rightly asserted, “I would call ‘Neanderthal thinking’ the Democrat Governor Cuomo of New York sending patients with COVID to nursing homes.”
Many of us, including myself, struggled to refrain from shouting obscenities after witnessing yet another obvious display of hypocrisy, a noun that is synonymous with the Democrat Party. “How dare Biden attack policies in Texas, Mississippi, and elsewhere while he allows COVID-positive illegal immigrants to pour into our country” is more or less what many of us thought or said.
While these points are valid, they fail to address the more important underlying meaning behind Biden’s comments. Our finger-pointing may have been deserved and resonated amongst conservatives, but it failed to move the needle, which is moving rapidly toward totalitarianism and away from conservatism, sanity, and freedom.