"What is now becoming clear is that this resistance to vaccination is leaching out of the soil of the same partisan divides—and spreading beyond aversion to #Covid19 immunization. Party affiliation is now becoming more and more associated with hesitancy toward #immunization against such common childhood diseases such as #measles, #mumps, #rubella, #polio and #chickenpox."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gop-covid-anti-vax/
@cyrilpedia @gregggonsalves Many conspiracy theorists find a sense of community and belonging in being a member of "the tribe". Sometimes their entire personality is tied up in being an anti-vaxxer or flat-earther or whatever. This is stronger than the left/right axis of politics, so an uber-conspiracy like Qanon just rolls over them and sucks them up like that old game Katamari Damacy. And that path leads them down the rabbit hole to extremism.
Unless we can get them to start thinking critically and show them a more powerful sense of community and empathy, the left and the middle will suffer a slow attrition and the right will grow. We have the tools to aid us in this, tools like Deep Canvassing, Street Epistemology, and Attitude Inoculation, all we need to do is use them. Nobody is coming to help us; not the media, not the government, nobody. We have to do it ourselves.
