re: #27 austin_blue

Vaxxers, Birthers, Bernie Bros, Flat Earthers, Anti-Fluoridists, and Climate Change Deniers seem to be cut from the same cloth.

But if you add them up, they seem to make up a fair portion of the polity.

Which is kind of scary.

Well, they’re cut from the same cloth insofar as they all seem to be uninterested in facts. Anti-vaxxers come in lefty-liberal, libertarian, and sovereign citizen varieties. Birthers are pretty much wingnuts. Bernie bros are either purity ponies or rodent copulators (like Cassandra Fairbanks and a fair number of Russian trolls).

I have no idea what the Flat Earthers are doing. Anti-fluoridation people were launched by the John Birch Society. Climate denialists are almost exclusively conservatives who have been propagandised by the GOP and their corporate donors.

But yeah, you pile on all those disparate groups and you get quite a large portion of voters who don’t seem to know the difference between facts, fiction, and propaganda.