Line6 HXFX wrote: Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:32 am
The problem is if people of the far right just accepted the vaccine, accepted that the state is helping them, and along with the furlough and a hundred other things the state has done.... and they accepted all this without protesting, the ideology of the right would be dead.
During the most important catastrophes, from the 2008 banking crisis to this, the state (socialism)has rescued society again and again and again.
The issue is the over simplicity of thinking anti-Vaccers are far right with illusions that medical practice attacks individual freedoms. Adoption of anti-vacc stances on the right has been relatively recently. The main core of anti-vaccination dialogue came from white, liberal enclaves of university educated families and is still residing there.
This largely because the anti-Vacc backlash of the past 2 decades or so is sourced back to the Andrew Wakefield study where he interviewed a total of 12 people, but the media jumped on the report and magnified the rather poor science in it. Despite the fact reports that literally cover the data of millions of children have been published since refuting it, the idea still has it's claws deep in the social psyche sadly.
Also for accuracy, socialism isn't the state giving out bailouts. Socialism hasn't rescued society time and time again. Socialism is the state controlling the services and means of production. I'm not saying unfettered capitalism is the answer. Nordic countries show Capitalist societies which the state provides great services to support and regulate the capitalism and creates a fair platform work best . E.g. Canada and the Nordic countries. That doesn't make them socialist.