Good article by Geoff Shulenberger, nicely reflecting my previous item. Shulenberger is also trying to analyze the weird cognitive dissonance on both sides about the “virus”. He also focuses on RFK’s manipulation of the activists.
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When RFK Jr. began his crusade against childhood vaccination in the 2000s, it was a niche issue with a heterogeneous ideological appeal: Both conservative religious communities and affluent liberal enclaves were susceptible to the concerns he promoted, especially the supposed link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
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Shulenberger notes another recent phenomenon that I’ve been catching. It’s a nonbarking dog, so it’s harder to pin down. Both “sides” are COMPLETELY IGNORING 2020 in their current advertising. Many of the “independent” media are doing the same thing, which automatically takes all the criminals off the gallows. Trump and Inslee and Newsom and Walz are bashed or praised for the irrelevant and trivial things they did and said, NOT for participating in the biggest crime of the century. Like punishing Hitler for having a mistress.
Trump is punished for being a normal tax-evading millionaire and for vaguely encouraging one short protest. One protest is redefined as JANUARY 6 VIOLENT INSURRECTION, and the biggest crime of the century never happened.
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The absorption of the non-Democratic part of the RFK Jr. base into the GOP is the latest indication that the ideologically eclectic Covid-era revolt against biomedical authoritarianism is defunct. What has replaced it is a revival of old conservative jeremiads against “big government” and related warnings about looming communism, now central to the Trump campaign’s messaging. Given the seriousness of the issues raised by critics of Covid policies, it is unfortunate to see them consigned to oblivion by one party and resolved into anachronistic bromides by the other. In this sense, RFK Jr.’s run should be remembered mainly as a missed opportunity.
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The biggest lost opportunity isn’t RFK, who is a superficial gameplayer. The biggest loss is DeSantis. When he ran for president he could LEGITIMATELY claim the role of powerful and consequential opponent, based on his ACTIONS, not talk. As governor he had courageously battled Trump’s monstrosity and kept Florida sane. Instead, he ignored his own POWERFUL APPEAL and played the idiotic woke games.
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DeSantis had a perfect resume, based on acting HARD and FIRST in Florida. He protected Floridians from TrumpBiden’s worst crime in history. Other weaker governors in Dixie soon followed his lead.
When he announced for president he let ELON set the tone, instead of controlling the event himself. Elon played all the usual WEF games, “technical glitches” and meaningless questions. After that, DeSantis still refused to SELL his own best points, playing the idiotic Woke shit against Disney, which nobody really believes.
Now I don’t give a fuck what he does next. If you won’t defend your own record, why should I help?
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Later thought: The biggest current problem, homelessness and fentanyl, is also memoryholed. Ordinary humans are talking about it all the time but politicians are silent, for the same fucking reason. The culprits are equally in both parties. Defunding cops and legalizing drugs was a Libertarian idea, adopted by mainstream Repooflicans around 2012. Later the Dems adopted it. The REAL culprits, Soros-owned prosecutors and Bloomberg-owned mayors, are mostly nonpartisan.
When an issue can’t be turned into party talking points, it doesn’t exist.
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