The Alt-Right and Alt-Med

I’ve suddenly come to realize that a rising political group, the so-called “Alt-Right” (basically nothing more than “…white supremacists who have repackaged the hate and served it up in a more palatable form for human consumption…“) and much of the “Alt Med” movement (including purveyors and proponents of alternative, complementary, integrative, functional, holistic, and assorted other terms for quackery through the years) have a lot in common. Both operate in fact-free zones. Reality doesn’t seem to matter to either of them. Immigrants are objectively not streaming across our borders threatening our way of life, and as anyone with a third grade level of science education understands, water does not have memory (homeopathy.) Race is nothing but a sociological construct, so “protecting one’s race” is meaningless. There is also no magical life force other than well-understood neuronal impulses flowing through our spines (chiropractic), no meridians or chi (acupuncture), and so on and so forth. Both movements have been with us a very long time, in one guise or another. Neo-nazis begat skinheads, begat today’s Breitbart, while Alternative spawned Complementary which morphed into Integrative. Nothing changes the essential truths of white supremacy and quackery, respectively. Interestingly, though, both are quite media savvy these days, allowing them to spread their unreality (a more tactful word th...
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