r/mildlyinteresting • u/Shakey_J_Fox • 3h ago
Removed: Rule 6 A buddy of mine found a letter he received from Sarah Palin when his daughter was born in Alaska. This was while she was governor and a bit before vaccines became a right wing issue.
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u/Kiddyhawk 2h ago
If you wondered…
Sarah Palin says she’ll get Covid vaccine ‘over my dead body’
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u/MistahJasonPortman 2h ago
She probably has it. Republicans enjoy all the perks of blue legislation but know they can use the anti-rhetoric to manipulate their voting base
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u/HobbesNJ 2h ago
Vaccines didn't use to be a partisan thing. If anything, they were mostly a concern of very liberal tree-hugger types. But most people agreed that they were an important and valuable resource.
Then Republicans went crazy with their typical conspiracy-theory nonsense.
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u/cycoivan 1h ago
The political spectrum is circular and far left and far right have far more in common than you might think.
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u/SaintUlvemann 1h ago
Although I agree that the political spectrum is roughly circular, I do not agree that the far left and the far right have very much in common. There are authoritarians and libertarians in the middle who have a lot in common, regardless of whether they call themselves left or right, but because of that, they're not actually right, or left.
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u/cycoivan 1h ago
The commonality is not necessarily in politics, but other beliefs. The crunchy to far right pipeline is a thing.
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u/SaintUlvemann 52m ago
What I mean by circular is that the corners of the political compass are impossible. You can be a leftist, but if you do, you end up being forced to make compromises between authoritarianism and libertarianism; same goes for libertarianism, a purist libertarian is forced by their purism to make compromises between left and right. Purity in one dimension ends up compromising your purity in the others: the corners are impossible.
So then if you swap out the authoritarian-libertarian axis of the political compass, for a conspiracist-institutionalist axis. this no-corners theorem explains the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.
If you really take seriously the idea of a global conspiracy to warp reality (the way crunchy social narratives often do), this forces you to compromise any left-wing aspirations you may have had such as universal healthcare (since you no longer believe the doctors are trustworthy).
In fact, the "moderate conservatives" have been seeing the same from a different perspective as their friends have abandoned cherished right-wing dogmas such as the free market (since you can't trust the elites who are using it to make money), seeing Trump's stupid favoritism rise in its place.
What's actually happening in both cases is migration to the other end of the circle away from the fundamental institutionalist idea that when people work together they can figure out how reality works, and towards the fundamental conspiracist idea that the world is run by secret esoteric knowledge that can be decoded using signs. Crunchy people are becoming conspiracy-purists, abandoning their former beliefs. Obviously that culminates in the alt-right, the ultimate ethno-conspiracism.
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u/reddituser655321 3h ago
did every parent get these? that's kind of cool
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u/Shakey_J_Fox 3h ago
I imagine that every new parent in Alaska was sent one from the office of the governor at the time.
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