Discussion for article #232830
O M G!
Was this Rand Paul or General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove?
General Jack D. Ripper: “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!”
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This is so hard for them. As many have pointed out a good portion of the anti-vaxxers are rich, white, liberal women or hardcore granola types.
They are not their natural constituents nor are they likely to riot in the streets. You don’t really have to worry about them going all Clive Bundy.
…and his Presidential chances go POP POP POP
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What Paul and his minions are working extremely hard at (the dismantling of the modern American Middle Class) is what is actually going to lead to “Martial Law”.
And when it actually does happen, I sincerely hope that Paul (alias “Wigwam”) is not in a sheltered TV studio or 0.001%-er gated community when it goes down.
I’m sorry, but as far as I can remember from history class, the only two things that have been used to justify martial law over the past century of American history are (a) plutocracy and putting down uppity laborers and (b) racism and putting down uppity browns and scary asians.
Am I wrong?
Moreover, if you think “let’s make sure everyone is healthy and preventable deadly and debilitating diseases don’t run amok” somehow easily gets morphed into martial law, then you are fucking paranoid fool. The ACTUAL pandemic outbreak of a disease might result in some form of martial law, curfews, widespread quarantines, etc…BUT MANDATORY VACCINES ACTUALLY HELP PREVENT THAT EXCUSE FROM OCCURRING.
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He’s always thinking about World War Z.
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Actually, there may be little if any correlation between political outlook vis a vis left vs right and antivaxism.
The latest data comes from a survey of 2,316 U.S. adults by a researcher
who works at the universities of Yale and Harvard. While questions
about human-caused climate change divided along political lines–with
liberals believing it is happening and conservatives denying it–there
was no such correlation with anti-vaccine views. The vast majority of
people believe the benefits of childhood vaccinations outweigh the
risks, regardless of their politics. And the survey found anti-vaccine
views are more common among Republicans.
PS: Also
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How many different ways does Rand Paul have to say he’s uniquely UNQUALIFIED to be President of the United States?
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Show this to any liberal who hear Paul speak about sentencing reform and insists that maybe he wouldn’t be so bad. The lurching between sanity and insanity is pretty amazing.
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Rand Paul has a very cozy relationship with a wide variety of constipation-theory nutjobs.
The conservatives justify anti-vax as a protest against “da ebil gov”. The liberals justify it as against “da ebil pharma” companies. Presumably, the former would get vaccines if the FDA said they were bad for you and the latter would get them if they were made at home and sold at farmer’s markets.
Definitely presidential timber.