re: #8 HappyWarrior

I can’t express here though how much I despise the anti-vaccination movement. It’s bad enough that they’re full of hacks lying about my condition (autism) but it’s bad enough that their kookery puts not just their own children in danger but other people’s too. People like these as I got at are why we have people that take things for granted like clean water, clean air, etc. All stuff that progressives of past eras had to fight hard for against reactionary elements and now could lose because some kook bitches about “big government” or “regulations.” It’s the same crap.. Not surprised at all that they’re reverting to the same old right wing sport of scapegoating immigrants.

Also, the problem with scapegoating is that it drives you further from, not closer to, correctly identifying the source of an issue or problem. Which opens up an entirely different can of (sand)worms in terms of potential effects.

A fresh example is this RWNJ I talked to elsewhere on the net, which so habitually scapegoats the “Big Soshulisht Government” that he doesn’t seem to grasp that there is such a thing corruption in the private sector without any government involvement whatsoever. He simply could not let go of the notion that the govt was involved somehow.