[FRIAM] Liberal "othering" or statement of fact?

[Frank Wimberly]

If they're influencing their children along those lines this is, as we have
discussed, natural selection at work.  I wonder if the effect on future
elections will be measurable.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 8:18 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So saith Paul Krugman:
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html
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> Once you’re sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing
> politics, you realize that it’s pervasive.
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> This is clearly true in the right’s fever swamps. Alex Jones of Infowars
> has built a following by pushing conspiracy theories, but he makes money by
> selling nutritional supplements
> <https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html>.
> It’s also true, however, for more mainstream, establishment parts of the
> right. For example, Ben Shapiro, considered an intellectual on the right,
> hawks supplements.Look at who advertises
> <https://tvrev.com/whos-still-advertising-with-tucker-carlson-at-the-end-of-q2-2021/>
> on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. After Fox itself, the top advertisers
> are My Pillow, then three supplement companies.Snake oil peddlers, clearly,
> find consumers of right-wing news and punditry a valuable market for their
> wares. So it shouldn’t be surprising to find many right-leaning Americans
> ready to see vaccination as a liberal plot and turn to dubious alternatives
> — although, again, I didn’t see livestock dewormer coming.
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