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I just can't fathom why such people say such stupid things.

I cannot believe this is the stuff we wake up to now.

And this. Main ideological difference between L and R is respect for, and desire to keep, hierarchies. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/prim...

They’re working their way back to a livestock model: more’n half of the mammalian mass on earth consists of animals humans either eat or enjoy. This structure, transposed onto people, is becoming again the model of nations. We won’t be encouraged to outlive our net positives. [Thus spake Answerman.]

It goes so far against rational thought and decades of evidence. It's unbelievable that this is even being discussed.

What I find horrifying is that people actually VOTED for that. They chose it. They decided to put those ghouls in power. How to feel sorry for them?

sadly, frighteningly, it’s a cycle of corruption and depravity at the expense of ordinary americans, all for more profit and further entrenching their ideal of creating systematic wage slavery

not to mention the squelching effect on developing therapies for emerging diseases and pandemics....

Ironically, didn't Bin Laden set out to show up the US as being no different from tribal religious states in his part of the world?

Predator class.

We could do this again.

They’ll take it away and expect the country to practically worship them for it.

It's not about education, it's about emotion and power. Do you think RFK Jr isn't educated? They've appealed to and roused people's emotions to gain power. Academics is still one of the most bigoted and segregated milieus. If education fixes hearts, it would be the most diverse workplace.

When there is no Medicare or Medicaid left, & no-one can afford insurance, & insurers won't pay anyway, presumably people will just have to linger then die at home, "safe" from vaccines? Difficult to know whether Trumps Cabinet are mad, deluded, sadistic or have shares in funeral parlours, or all 4

That tracks. Insufferable, isn’t it? Gonna be a rough 4 years :(

Them and their base spent the entire lockdown pandemic time solidifying a belief that vaccines didn't work to solve that issue and it left an open door to the whack jobs who think no vaccines are safe. If they get away with revoking vaccines from the market they're going to learn a horrible lesson.

Well said. Powerful people who think they know more than they do because they have a loud voice, money, or a fat ego (often all inherited, not their own expertise).

The WHO failed to entirely eradicate polio because some illiterate halfwits in Pakistan's tribal areas believed a conspiracy theory that the vaccine was secretly designed to strelilise them. The next health secretary of the United States is as stupid as those people.