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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a crunchy wellness person. I'm a vegan, I live in Takoma Park, grow a lot of my own food, and I do yoga. I am vaccinated but skeptical of Big Pharma, I tend to use medications as a last resort if lifestyle modifications don't work.

I want to learn more about the people who agree with Trump and RFK's MAHA movement. I'm trying to make this a friendly question although I can't help but point out the logical inconsistencies.

For example - you want to get chemicals out of food and water - me too! So why do you vote for the party that wants to deregulate industries?
You're skeptical of Big Pharma - me too! But do you think Republicans don't take donations from pharmaceutical companies?

What about the environment? Most yogis that I practice with are very cognizant of climate change and sustainability and protecting wildlife. I would also agree with criticisms from the right about the global scale climate initiatives being a lot of feel-good greenwashing, and that wealthy elites are hypocrites when they fly on private jets to a climate conference. So does this mean throw the baby out with the bathwater and Drill, Baby, Drill? And allow corporations to pollute everything?

I also agree that obesity is a problem and that we should eat healthier. Again, why do you feel Republicans are the people to make this happen? Especially when their standard-bearer is obese himself? To be quite frank, a lot of this attitude I'm seeing seems to be less about Make America Healthy Again, but more making it an individualistic superiority complex about shaming people without the resources to live healthier (they live in food deserts, have long commutes and sit at multiple jobs all day, cannot afford a single family home to have their own gardens, etc) and bragging about your own ability to be healthy, rather than enabling the (gasp) government to make it easier for people to be healthy? [/quote]

It's a fundamental mistrust of various institutions.[/quote]

It’s a selective mistrust.  They don’t trust people that have nothing to gain from a public health intervention (see dentists- they lose money when kids have fluoride. $20 fluoride applications have nothing on the $20k they make to rebuild a mouth of rotting teeth). Yet the conspiracy theorists unquestionably trust people who are selling them snake oil at wildly inflated prices.

The truth is there is no individual control. Your well water has no fluoride but it is full of PFAS. Our environment is so polluted even your lovingly tended backyard garden is going to produce veggies full of lead and other toxins. You can’t trust your supplement makers because there is zero regulation and zero accountability. Science is the best we got. It isn’t perfect and it’s always prone to bias, but it is the best we have. [/quote]

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