I'm still trying to figure out why the MAGA movement, which is not conservatism, per se, although it does incorporate authoritarianism, also incorporates denial of scientific facts including the fundamental facts about disease and public health. There doesn't seem to be any coherent ideological basis for believing that vaccines are harmful and remedies that don't work are effective. It's just an arbitrary requirement for club membership.
Which brings us to the insanity of nominating Robert Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy's lies, or delusions -- there's no telling which -- are directly responsible for the deaths of seventy children in Samoa, which suffered a measles outbreak after Kennedy's grotesquely named organization Children's Health Defense campaigned against vaccination in that country. Trump called Kennedy a "radical left lunatic" earlier this year, but was happy to bring him on board when Kennedy kissed his ass. Kennedy has said he will advise against fluoridating drinking water, fire 600 NIH employees, stop the FDA from condemning useless Covid-19 remedies, and prosecute medical journals for publishing scientific findings of which he disapproves. He has insinuated the HIV is not the cause of AIDS, that gender dysphoria is caused by chemicals in drinking water, and that Wi-Fi causes leaky brains (whatever that means). He is in short completely fucking nuts.
Can we find four Republican senators who refuse to murder their constituents? We'll see.
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Couldn't this all simply be explained by Shitler's being a Manchurian candidate controlled by Putin, who seeks to destroy America so Russia can be "great" again?
It seems that the terms we confuse the discussion. An antonym for "conservative" would be "progressive". It's a matter of whether you see the glass as half full or half empty. A progressive says "this aspect of society is bad; let's fix it", and the conservative replies "yes, but society as a whole is working pretty well as is; don't screw it up." As a computer programmer I relearned this lesson weekly, to my sorrow. A "liberal" seems to me to be represented by Scrooge, after his three night time visits. As far as I can tell, a "Conservative" is best visualized as Scrooge before.
A "radical" is anyone who wants to change things wholesale. And the seems to be what Trump is.
I see your point, Chucky. However, isn't Shitler completely unpredictable in his actions? Doesn't a true "radical" hold the same positions over an extended period of time (as opposed to just pulling the most invidious and outrageously conceivable propositions out of his ass)?
But the Manchurian Candidate was brainwashed into doing those things. With Trump it sounds more like one of his kinks.
Yes — agreed. But how much of what he does is at the behest of his Russian bitch master? I guess we can't know, but Putin is responsible for Shitler having any $ at all — and he undoubtedly possesses "kompromat" as a cudgel.
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