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Why should the rest of us suffer because RFK Jr is an idiot?
Because enough idiots decided it was more important to feel smart than to be smart, so they voted for President Pedophile.
In before: But Harris, Gaza, enablers, same thing!
In the meantime Gaza is gone, ICE is murdering people in the open, LGBTQ communities live through the biggest backlash etc
“But but then you support GeNoCiDe!”
[according to the cries of Lemmy morons ushering in an objectively worse world]
Don't forget the cries of "status quo". Or the further doubling down on Murc's Law and reactionary centrist type of rhetoric even after you've pointed it out, LOL.
I'll be honest, I'm pretty sick of the DNC, and I do give them plenty of blame, but I've always been willing to vote for them to give us time to get the guillotines deployed.
-- Isaac Asimov
The damage done to this country by the right is incalculable and likely irreversible.
When the internet started empowering the dumbest idiots who don't understand the world to find and support each other, we lost.
The human brain is not naturally a problem-solving tool of logic and reasoning, it has to be trained to use logic and reason, and in a world of comfort and ease like in the USA broadly, people had no incentive to learn more and be smarter other than social pressure, and that also dissolved as people found each other online and removed the pressure to step up their intellect to be accepted in broader society.
This has made a deep, slippery well of pseudo-science and naturalism and healing oils and magic water and crystals, which because of placebo effects and social influence, feel like they do more for people in their daily lives than mysterious terms like "mRNA" that defy all understanding or capability for people of limited intelligence to discuss with their coworkers around the lunch table and relate their own personal experiences so they seem special and interesting.
I wish more people recognized this connection.
It's all the same bullshit magical thinking, and it's killing all of us. None of it is "harmless".
This is why I maintain that technology needs, at minimum, a small but annoying technical barrier of entry. If any and every motion hadn't been able to get online with an Apple product, the internet would be a much better place. A small amount of gatekeeping is actually a good thing.
It's a nice idea but I don't think it would've changed much. There are plenty of otherwise intelligent people who buy into conspiracy theories, like remember how the pandemic made us aware that antivax nurses exist? Not many for sure, but I didn't even think that was possible. And there are also people who are smart in their field who think that makes them smart in everything so they spout a bunch of bullshit. Add in the smart grifters and I really don't think very much would be different with a slightly more difficult internet.
Mobile phones and apps did it. They let boomers poke and swipe their way into platforms while taking a dump in a volume that Apple alone could never have managed.
Because the people that support him (and Pedonald) are like a bucket of crabs.
They don't want any liberals getting any high-falutin' ideas about science being there to improve our lives or anything. They want to drag YOU down with them. If you or your kids have to die of preventable disease so that they and/or their stupid thought leaders never have to admit to being wrong, that's a price they are willing to pay.
We might have had to suffer it either way. Remember, RFK apparently approached both Kamala and Trump offering to endorse whoever let him be health secretary. Kamala reportedly refused, so good for her. Trump obviously didn't. But there are a lot of MAHA/vaccine skeptics around the area I live, more than I was prepared for (judging by pre-election lawn signs before RFK dropped out).
It's possible RFK's loyalists were enough to effectively pick the president. I think we all underestimated how deeply anti-science contrarianism has burrowed into our neighbors and communities.
So it sounds like we most definitely wouldn't have had to suffer it either way. Only one politician was shameless enough to take any endorsement he could get.