We have a particular segment of the population, many of them Boomers, that overdosed on the internet and refuse to accept that the internet lies to them, manipulates them, and acts as a conduit for propaganda tailor made for their lack of critical thinking and short sighted ideals. Cable TV (esp news outlets) was the primer for this and continues to act in tandem.

These are largely the same people who told us ‘video games make the kids violent!’ along with many other tropes that have been fed to them so they have zero incentive to see themselves as part and parcel to the problems we face today.

Now, we have an entire generation of new voters that have spent half their lives steeped in this Trumpian bullshit. They too are so lost in the version of reality that is being sold to them online that they don’t even see actual day to day reality for what it is.

Idk how we fix this, aside from something really major happening that unites us against our oppressors, or a multigenerational project akin to educational rehab.

Most boomers are not antivax though. They saw what polio could do. They saw this shit works.

The right has been very effective at capturing our country's idiots.

They have an answer for everyone. RFK was to capture the people who froth and rave about vaccines and essential oils and alternative cancer treatments involving incense and crystals and shit. These people have had their weird scams and delusional narratives beat down by the larger population of slightly more intelligent people for decades, so it was very smart of the right to grab those people with their very own political messiah in the form of RFK.

They targeted every dumbfuck specifically with an answer to their feelings of frustrations for being a dumbfuck.

The left sees dumbfucks with stupid ideas and we go "We need to shame them for their bad ideas and teach them facts and logic that they can't possibly connect with" and the right sees them and goes "We can use them."

And we wonder why we lose so much ground to obvious clowns.

And saws the heads off of dead whales, letting his kids get soaked in whale carcass juice.

I think he said he ate dog meat traveling but later added a disclaimer he didn't know what it was or something.

That's the LEAST of the things to be bothered about by him, I know at least two people in my life who actually did eat dog while traveling and didn't know it until later so that part isn't unheard of, the shit we need to be far more concerned about is his affinity for "collecting" roadkill and his backwards attitude towards science and complete lack of ANY qualifications to run our health and human services.

On mother's day in 2025 he posted a picture of himself in his never nude jeans splashing in Rock Creek Park - which is famous for a no swimming rule because of sewage outflow.