The Vaccine Aristocrats – by Matt Taibbi – TK News by Matt Taibbi
I m vaccinated. I think people should be vaccinated. But this latest moral mania and make no mistake about it, the pandemic of the unvaccinated PR campaign is the latest in a ceaseless series of such manias, dating back to late 2016 lays bare everything that s abhorrent and nonsensical in modern American politics, beginning with the no-longer-disguised aristocratic mien of the Washington consensus. If you want to convince people to get a vaccine, pretty much the worst way to go about it is a massive blame campaign, delivered by sneering bluenoses who have a richly deserved credibility problem with large chunks of the population, and now insist they re owed financially besides.
There s always been a contingent in American society that believes people who pay more taxes should get more say, or more votes, as Joseph Heller s hilarious Texan put it. It s a conceit that cut across party. You hear it from the bank CEO who thinks America should thank him for the pleasure of kissing his ass with a bailout, but just as quickly from the suburban wine Mom who can t believe the ingratitude of the nanny who asks for a day off. Doesn t she know who s paying the bills? The delusion can run so deep that people like Margaret Hoover can talk themselves into the idea that Social Security money taxpayers lend the government, not the other way around is actually a gift from the check-writing class.