Jerry Jones and socialism

Jerry Jones’s predecessor as owner of the Cowboys once remarked that NFL owners are a bunch of capitalists who vote like socialists when it comes to running their business (He meant that as a compliment by the way).

Jones seems to have generalized that insight to society as a whole:

Put this on T-shirts and bumper stickers. Make it a meme that goes viral. Turn it into a PSA and play it on every Jumbotron at every NFL stadium and during the broadcasts of every game.

Jerry Jones, of all people, just exposed the argument that getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a “personal choice” for the selfish nonsense that it is.

“Everyone has a right to make their own decisions regarding their health and their body. I believe in that completely – until your decision as to yourself impacts negatively many others. Then the common good takes over,” Jones said Tuesday during an appearance on Dallas radio station 105.3 The Fan.

“And I’m arm waving here, but that has everything to do with the way I look at our team, the Cowboys, or the way I look at our society,” Jones added. “We have got to check `I’ at the door and go forward with ‘we.’ Your Dallas Cowboys are doing that.”

On one level of course this merely recognizes that anti-vax craziness is costing a lot of rich people a lot of money. And this gets to the heart of the potential conflict between the money men and the flat-out crazies that with any luck could eventually rip the GOP apart.