The wellness to fascism pipeline.

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5. Once you sell "the establishment is lying to you" you can get people to buy into a lot

This has been a thing long before social media and Covid, but social media has allowed it to spread exponentially. I remember the halcyon days when I only had to deal with people like Mercola. But the entire "wellness" industry is chock full of quackery and snake oil whose entire basis is "Medicine likes keeping you sick". It really doesn't help when M.D.'s and other health professionals realize they can cash in on quackery and go to town. (Ahem, Dr. Oz - thanks Oprah!).

And once authority isn't trusted, well, you can fill that empty space, uncertainty, and suspicion with a whole lot of things. The mindset allows for tentacles to branch out into all kinds of areas, which inevitable includes politics.