“'God chose Ethan for a reason,' one South Carolina mother told the Independent this February after her son was paralyzed by measles encephalitis.

'If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine,' she said, citing the misleading scare line publicly shared by Kennedy and Trump that children today receive too many shots."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/9

"The people dragging America’s public health system toward a new dark age are not demonic. Rather, they are morally bankrupt and high on the supply of theocratic self-righteousness, with no regard to how their words and actions affect real people’s wellbeing.

Christian nationalist language gives calculated government neglect the sheen of providence."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/8

"Public health’s use of science in the collective interest of all races, faiths and genders clashes with their hierarchical moral order, in which Christians are seen as more virtuous and divinely protected than others."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/6

"Sociologists Joseph Baker, Stephen Perry and Andrew Whitehead, who have studied the movement, write that because science provides an 'alternative source of moral authority beyond divine revelation', Christian nationalists perceive institutional science 'as a threat to the supremacy of Christianity'."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/5

“'What we’re seeing in the US today is the attempt to use religion and Christian nationalism to erode a scientifically based social contract of trust between government and the people, and replace it with a more authoritarian relationship,' adds [Gary] Gunderson [Baptist minister and professor of public health science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine]."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/4

"Terms such as 'spiritual warfare' and ''spiritual attack', [Savannah] Tate says, are central to the movement’s vocabulary – part of a binary, warcentric and mystical rhetoric leveraging fear and disinformation to keep people on their toes against enemies both tangible and spiritual."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/3

It's not accidental that RFKJr — the lifelong philander with multiple marriages and affairs — goes around babbling about “spiritual malaise,” "spiritual warfare,” “malevolent forces,” and the “sacred ritual” of family dinner time. In talking this way, he's seeding in public discourse — about health matters — Christian nationalist memes.

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/2

"Trump is who he is. He can't win the war. A recession is coming. The bubble seems ready to burst.

The president's illegal and unpopular war against Iran is driving up the cost of gas so much that it seems all but certain that we're going to experience an inflationary recession."

~ John Stoehr

#MayDay #EconomicElites #billionaires #workers #economy #Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #BrentCrude #recession #inflation
/8

https://www.editorialboard.com/trump-is-who-he-is-he-cant-win-the-war-a-recession-is-coming/

"The system we have today is awash in corruption, and absolutely everyone knows it. None of this can be solved through optimistic messaging and can-do spirit. We might as well start thinking about what we replace it with, because the center, as-is, cannot hold much longer."

~ David Karpf

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/18

https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-institutional-legitimacy-and-phantom-limbs