Comment by 01100011
10 hours ago
I think it came from peaceniks and hippies mostly. You're talking about the equivalent of modern anti-vax liberals. Anti-science and given to conspiracies and mysticism.
There was a pretty good reason to be scared of nukes when these folks were children in the 50s. The world was quite a different place back then. The US was lagging behind the Soviets, militarily speaking, and Communism was much more expansionary.
> There was a pretty good reason to be scared of nukes when these folks were children in the 50s
Yes, but I think if you asked which country was more likely to "push the button" in the 50s-70s it would have been the US, and the extent to which the US continued invasions after the collapse of the USSR kind of vindicates that.
> The US was lagging behind the Soviets, militarily speaking
I don't think this was ever true except in the least useful measure, raw headcount of conscripts.
> anti-vax liberals
Just a small correction, but the anti-vax arguments are very conservative, not liberal.
hate to tell you this, but there's a whole contingent of "granola moms" who won't vax their children. They're the same people that subscribe to those teething stones that are really only a strangulation risk.
Yep, and a lot of what they say is deeply conspiratorial conservative rhetoric.
They may be self described liberal, but their actions certainly aren't.
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There are both liberal and conservative strains of anti-vaccination sentiment that have been more or less prominent at various times.
There is undeniably a middle class anti vax wellness leftist movement whether it was originally conservative or not, unfortunately.
Appeal to nature is something that definitely cuts across the political spectrum.
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> wellness leftist movement
Hang on, are we talking about liberal or leftist now?
Because a lot of these hoax "wellness" movements are conservative. Distrusting science and things you don't understand is a conservative mindset.
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> You're talking about the equivalent of modern anti-vax liberals. Anti-science and given to conspiracies and mysticism
In 2026 this is decidedly a more conservative stance. They installed RFK Jr., who in addition to Wakefield, is the antivax guy. MAHA specifically (can’t believe they actually stuck with that acronym) is overwhelmingly Republican dominated/supported.