Asimov on the American Cult of Ignorance

A comment on a NY Times op-ed from past directors of the US CDC (Center for Disease Control), which the dangerous idiot Robert F Kennedy Jr is decimating to enact his anti-vaccine, anti-science, anti-expert agenda:

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

― Isaac Asimov, "A Cult of Ignorance," Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

It honestly seems like Kennedy is trying to kill Americans--he's already decided that Americans can't get a COVID shot unless they have special circumstances and a prescription from their doctor. He's cut research left, right and center. (Links in the essay.) And Trump is letting him--really, too ignorant to stop him. Someone else is pulling the strings attached to Trump anyway, likely the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 managers. They seem to be trying to destroy the country as a whole, not just the health of Americans.

Something very strange is going on behind the scenes.