"To ignore Kennedy, or his supporters, on the grounds of their holding such easily falsifiable beliefs seems extremely shortsighted. A lot of Americans believe things that aren’t true—which, given the (literally) whitewashed version of history most of us get taught, shouldn’t be surprising."

~ D.D. Guttenplan 

#RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #AntiIntellectualism #vaccines #antivax 

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/rfk-jr-rally-anti-vax-campaign/ 

 @f884fa2b literally just read this in a 1967 essay on fascsim. 

"that convictions and ideologies take on their demonic, their genuinely destructive character precisely when the objective situation is deprived them of substance." Theodore Adorno

Detachment from reality makes them more dangerous not less.

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