Guiding principles to voting in the time of medical authoritarianism
From the 2020 presidential election, but still applies today. Maybe more so.
[You can also link to the Twitter thread version of this here.]
Vote for anyone who does NOT believe that you can "freeze" the economy.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @RepThomasMassie](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/RepThomasMassie.jpg)
2. Vote for anyone who does NOT believe that mandatory masking of our human identity, facial expressions, breathing holes is no big deal.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/MarkChangizi.jpg)
3. Vote for anyone who does NOT want to hoist their religion upon you.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
4. Vote for anyone who does NOT treat you as a guinea pig.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
5. Vote for anyone who does NOT believe being called an "authoritarian" is flattering.
6. Vote for anyone who does NOT treat real life like SimCity.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
7. Vote for anyone who is NOT likely to ever refer to "black swans."
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
8. Vote for anyone who is NOT so pretentious that draconian levels of civil rights violations are "common sense."
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
9. Vote for anyone who does NOT believe it is wise for a leader to purposely induce fear and hysteria.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
10. Vote for anyone NOT likely to be who snitches vote for.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
11. Vote for anyone NOT supported by cancel weasels.
12. Vote for anyone NOT turning a blind eye to the insulting new tiered class distinction, where hundreds of millions of service industry employees toil faceless, serving their unmasked clients eating, enjoying.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
13. Vote for anyone NOT believing the science suddenly changed when it was politically convenient.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
14. Vote for anyone NOT attributing the devastating effects of lockdowns as "consequences of the pandemic."
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,h_314,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadd194d9-3498-4b63-b57a-9ca57d5e9011_1356x668.jpeg)
15. Vote for anyone NOT making an Islamic mullah embarrassed for him because of the level of micromanagement.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
16. Vote for anyone NOT holding positions on science designed so as to be able to get invited to the right parties.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @ShellenbergerMD](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/ShellenbergerMD.jpg)
17. Vote for anyone NOT characterizing his political opponents as the modern day version of witches. (Racist, Fascist, white supremacist, deplorable, ...)
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
18. Vote for anyone NOT blind to the disproportionate suffering from lockdowns of the lower incomes.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![Image](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FElbLaBmXIAEj24H.jpg)
![Image](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FElbLb7zXUAE0o85.jpg)
19. Vote for anyone NOT hellbent on further ramping up the lockdown deaths.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![Image](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FEl13wFyWkAMWlGJ.jpg)
20. Vote for anyone NOT missing a sense of proportion.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
21. Vote for anyone NOT pushing us toward a zero-dimensional dystopia.
22. Vote for anyone NOT looking to China as our example.
23. Vote for anyone NOT breathlessly demanding you follow their damned rules.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![Image](https://substackcdn.com/video/upload/e_loop,vs_40/mokjhpmu3jhcbtwojtwx.gif)
24. Vote for anyone whose policies were NOT inspired by the idea of welding people inside their homes.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @JordanSchachtel](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/JordanSchachtel.jpg)
25. Vote for anyone NOT relying on counting artifacts to misinform.
26. Vote for anyone NOT confusing everyone everywhere always as surgeons.
27. Vote for anyone NOT embarking on a new normal because of reckless innumeracy.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
28. Vote for anyone who's prior probabilities have NOT gotten so warped they have no common sense.
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarkChangizi.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @MarkChangizi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/MarkChangizi.jpg)
29. Vote for anyone who has NOT bet their entire reputation on Covid19 being a forever-world-altering virus.
I notice 'the conversation' link on point #14 has the headline. "Faces mass hunger if efforts to offset impact of COVID-19 eased".
When the truth is they had mass hunger due to the 'efforts to offset impact of COVID-19'.
Also the picture they chose is symbolic of a lot of stuff I shouldn't have to point-out.
Good post Mark, I'll share it.