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The lockdowns and subsequent vaccine drama turned a huge amount of previously assumed "liberal" new-age dumbasses into full-throated right-wing dumbasses. It was surprising to watch at first, but it makes sense when you think about it.
Is it because there's a whole ton of people who are simply selfish?
No?
It's basically just anti-academic.
If you can just invent arcane knowledge that only you know then you're smarter than everyone and can do anything you like.
That makes more sense than what I was thinking before
So selfish.
Basically the whole contingent is anti-authority, and con's were able to capitalize on that by feeding the pushback against vaccines and masks.