Jeff Tiedrich: Why the fuck would anybody voluntarily want to go back to that, it fucking sucked

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

8. Most Americans of the present have never seen polio, so it doesn't exist.

Polio was a real IN YOUR FACE danger for those of us of a certain age, but the vaccine mostly eradicated it. The vast majority of Americans who never experienced it would be hard pressed to even tell you what it is/does, or what an iron lung is for. If you learned anything from the most recent election, may it be that average American of voting age lives a life that revolves only around themselves, their immediate friends, their family and what they see on that interweb thing and on television. They seldom stray far from where they were born, unless its on vacation where they don't interact with the locals much, so their experience in the broader world is, shall we say, rather limited.They do KNOW, for example, that crime is RAMPANT on the streets of big cities across the U.S. They've mostly never been there, now nothing about living there, but they watch cop shows and see it with their own eyes .

If/when polio affects them personally, they'll scream endlessly and blame anyone their favorite screamer on that interweb thing tells them to. These are also the people who believe most fervently in a god or gods they can't see. Like it or not, that's the mentality you've got to deal with. If you were expecting logic, I think perhaps you may not have been paying attention.

All in all I wouldn't worry about RFK 2.0 too much. Trump appointees are usually incompetent and tend not to last. Whoever comes after him will be worse.