A recent Rasmussen poll shows that Democrats favor some pretty wild Covid policies.
It's not surprising that support for vaccine mandates or fines for the unvaccinated breaks down among party lines, but it is surprising that such large numbers of Democrat voters support some really harsh punishments for the unvaccinated.
Here are just a few of the takeaways from the polling:
- 55% of Democratic voters would support a proposal for federal or state governments to fine Americans who choose not to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
- 59% of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
- 48% of Democratic voters think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.
Yes, that's nearly 50% of Democratic voters who think it should be a crime to publicly question the vaccines!!
This is just absolutely insane.
You can't run a clinical trial without questioning the efficacy of a vaccine. Literally the first step in the scientific method is to ask a QUESTION. Yet these are the people yelling "TrUsT tHe sCiEnCe!"
But I digress.
The findings go on:
- 45% of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
- 47% of Democrats favor a government tracking program for those who won't get the COVID-19 vaccine.
- 29% of Democratic voters would support temporarily removing parents' custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
According to the Rasmussen Report, Biden supporters specifically are more likely to support the harshest punishments for the unvaccinated:
President Biden's strongest supporters are most likely to endorse the harshest punishments against those who won't get the COVID-19 vaccine. Among voters who have a Very Favorable impression of Biden, 51% are in favor of government putting the unvaccinated in "designated facilities," and 54% favor imposing fines or prison sentences on vaccine critics.
The full survey breakdown can be found here.
