David B. HimselfApr 13, 2024
Your reading assignment of the day.

This is about the US, but the same is happening in Europe, Australia, even Japan, and probably more.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-joined-conservatives-to

#fascism #collapse #Covid #eugenism #antivax
Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public health

Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.

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Show threadScott Matter

@DavidBHimself

Quibble with the subheading: “Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.”

I don’t know that “liberals”, especially American ones, ever believed that public health is a collective effort. Certainly the neo-liberals don’t and never have. They believe it’s an outcome of markets in which individual actors pursue self-interest.

Apr 13, 2024 at 1:41amWeb
Show threadDavid B. HimselfApr 13, 2024
@scottmatter "Liberals" in the US means center-left (the mainstream Democrats.) I know it's confusing, as in the rest of the world, it usually means "right-wing" (another thing where the US just can't align with the rest of the world)
Show threadScott MatterApr 13, 2024

@DavidBHimself

Yes, I’m familiar. And tbh, the Canadian Liberals have been fairly close to US Democrat positions, while Liberals in Australia are right-wing and drifting further

Meanwhile, Labour in the UK (since Blair?) and Australia (since Hawke / Keating?) - ostensibly more left-wing have been far more neoliberal than anything like collectivist or socialist.