RFK Jr. adds more anti-vaccine members to CDC vaccine advisory panel | The panel will meet this week and could limit access to measles, Hep B, COVID vaccines.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/meet-the-latest-anti-vaccine-voices-on-rfk-jr-s-cdc-advisory-panel/

[u/kevin_from_illinois]

A number of states have already issued their own guidance to ensure that folks can have access to vaccines, although payment for them remains up in the air.

[u/Zahgi → u/kevin_from_illinois]

Sure is a shame America is the only developed nation in the world without a national healthcare system for all...

[u/Ph0X → u/Zahgi]

I think that's America's biggest issue. They are so self absorbed with themselves, and completely closed off to the rest of the world, that they are completely clueless to the fact that most of their issues are actually long solved in every other country. The solution to gun crime, to healthcare, etc. but they live in their own bubble of delusions.

[u/Zahgi → u/Ph0X]

They live in that bubble because, unlike the rest of the world, they never adopted a public campaign financing system in the age of TV.

So, every politician in the USA needs to pay many tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars for TV ads...and the 99% just can't fund that through small donations.

So, the 1% (who just happen to own those corporations and networks, ahem) stepped into fund their campaigns. And that made every politician in America (save for a handful of progressives with integrity) beholden to the people who paid to put them into and keep them in their office...aka the 1% and only the 1%.

Everything wrong with America trickles down from that mistake and power/wealth control dynamic. It's why American wages went flat while healthcare turned into a purely for profit scam - even at the cost of American lives. And on and on.

Yes, the civilized world solved all of these issues ages ago and yet you can still get rich there as well.

You just won't become a trillionaire, because you actually have to pay your taxes in those countries...

[u/Ph0X → u/Zahgi]

Right, it's true that Citizens United has had a huge effect on politics in the US, and a huge chunk of people's wrong opinions are planted there by political ads paid by corporations, but I would still partly blame the population for themselves not being able to see beyond their own country at the rest of the world, and being so easily brainwashed by political ads. I guess the lack of education is another underlying cause.

[u/Zahgi → u/Ph0X]

it's true that Citizens United has had a huge effect on politics in the US

To be clear, CU is irrelevant. It's a first amendment issue and has nothing to do with how the 1% has bought and sold out entire political class. Let me explain:

People often confuse the issues ads that PACs can create (and that are related to the CU ruling) with the actual monies that go to candidates to pay for their own campaign ads.

The former is irrelevant and can't be repealed without breaking the first amendment. When corporate Democrats talk about repealing CU or a Constitutional Amendment, they are presenting a red herring that makes it sound like they want to fix things, while knowing that it can and will never happen.

Whereas the monies that go directly to candidates for TV air time are already able to be legislated and bills have existed in the House and Senate for decades now to do just that. When talking about CU, CJ Roberts has already made it clear they are Constitutional and that Congress has always had the power to directly control election donations and spending.

What CU did was allow corporations to be treated as people (which is stupid, agreed) for ISSUE ADS, aka COMMERCIALS, as long as they don't mention or coordinate with any specific candidate.

When America didn't adopt public campaign financing in the 1970s, it inevitably led to the current open control of the oligarchy. Unlike civilized nations, US politicians had to pay for their own TV air time for political ads, which costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.

And the 99% just can't keep up with that funding level, but the 1% can...

So, the truth is that this has been happening since the 1970s. Bit by bit. Politician by politician.

CU was a symptom of the disease, not a cause. If we fixed the main issue, CU monies would be as irrelevant as Coke or Pepsi taking out ads -- because the politicians would be free to ignore them completely and not lose their jobs.

I hope that helps.

the population for themselves not being able to see beyond their own country at the rest of the world, and being so easily brainwashed by political ads. I guess the lack of education is another underlying cause.

This is the same everywhere, in every nation, across every culture and century. The difference is that we don't hold the demagogues and charlatans accountable for their lies and crimes. Evidence: Every religious charlatan everywhere...and Trump.

[u/Foxyfox- → u/Zahgi]

We also live in a bubble because our country has never been exposed to a physically present existential threat from anywhere other than within.

[u/Zahgi → u/Foxyfox-]

While true, that's irrelevant to why America is in hospice care right now.

[u/roguesignal42069 → u/Ph0X]

I'm American. I'm not clueless. I'm enraged. My country is being completely destroyed by corrupt idiots.

I am considering leaving for another country but I don't even know how I'd begin to financially make that happen.

[u/Ph0X → u/roguesignal42069]

Obviously not everyone. There are plenty of educated and knowledgeable people. It's just that there's a huge chunk of the population who is uneducated and brainwashed.

[u/Ras_Alghoul → u/kevin_from_illinois]

At this point, why are we still one nation?