And not just a few of those professionals - almost all of them. Apparently over 99% of these people devoted their lives to researching and administering healthcare at great financial and time expense, then decided to hurt people instead. But they're only murderous and immoral sometimes - most of the people who say they distrust physicians still want surgeries, help with pain, to be taken to the hospital in emergencies etc. It's such a contradictory mentality.
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It's the power of propaganda. These people didn't get to this position naturally, they got there because of the billionaire funded propagandists undermining trust in the experts because they are saying "climate change is a huge problem, we need to regulate these oil companies" and "hey, we need to miss out on profits and quarantine for the public good".
Ever wonder why conservatives hate the EPA? A government agency that should be the least controversial around? Yeah, it's because billionaires can make more money dumping toxic waste into the public water supply than responsible disposal. So attack the agency preventing that as being too liberal.
The Koch's, Murdock, she the Mercers have fucked over multiple nations.
Flyover country has a deep resentment of the fact that there are people that know more about shit than you can learn by going to church every Sunday, and this resentment plays out by them rebelling against any course of action recommended by said people who trigger their intellectual inferiority complex
I think some people assume that the smarter a person is the more money they will have, because they have bent all of their intellect toward gaining more wealth. Therefore, in their eyes, billionaires are all uber geniuses (PS fuck autocorrect for trying to tell me uber has to be capitalized, it's a fucking word foremost, not a company).
They do not understand that money is not the primary motivator for a lot of people. Particularly a lot of very smart people.
Also, the one billionaire I've known quasi-personally (worked for him and spent some time around him) was a third generation rich kid who wasn't particularly evil at heart but also not particularly bright.
It’s the complete opposite. The only trait that billionaires have in common is exploitation of people. There is no way to legitimately earn a billion dollars - you must take it. From your employees, from people you scammed, from exploited labor. Being a billionaire only proves that you were a dick who put yourself above everything else.
There are those who combine both. Or have you forgotten about those who think Bill Gates put microchips into vaccines in order to control people?
The truly sad part is that acknowledging the vast majority of human beings, likely the self included, are mentally flawed to this extent does not make it any easier. It just makes you even more angry. There is no solution or fix for widespread human inadequacy.
Thank you, Augie. This needed to be said. I've often wondered why we glamorize military people and give them all kinds of regard, but we don't give a shit about the people who really do the work behind the scenes, we don't think about the health professionals who toil long hours or the even lesser seen people in healthcare billing who (believe me) toil tirelessly to make sure our insurances pay what they should and all the teachers and assistants who put in huge long hours.
There are more kinds of heroes out there than just military ones, or political ones. People who never get noticed but deserve to be.
And their savior is Agent Orange
they're proud and stupid and they like to be lied to
Just imagine a completely average guy, middle of the road, not too smart, not just dumb, a perfect example of average intelligence.... 4 billion of us are dumber than that
Idiocracy was prophecy.
I mean, I think "those people" believe it's the billionaire pharma companies lying to them, not the individual researchers. And they're lying to everyone, including the doctors and public health officials. Not that I agree - that would be difficult to cover up & someone would surely whistleblow. But it does make more sense if you look at the brainwashing in that light.
