@cstross

Trusting people who know what they're doing is a feature of common sense. This guy is a sociopath.

“We need to stop trusting the experts, right?” Kennedy told Carlson. “We were told at the beginning of COVID, don’t look at any data yourself, don’t do any investigation yourself, just trust the experts. And trusting the experts is not a feature of science, it’s not a feature of democracy, it’s a feature of religion, and it’s a feature of totalitarianism.”

#uspol #rfkjr

@cstross "We need to stop trusting the experts” is a compelling slogan.

Don't listen to people who know anything! If a statistical noise machine can't do the job, I'm sure we can find an angry guy on YouTube who can! Let’s free our decision-making processes from the deadly specter of competence once & for all!

In a more rational era, RFK jr would be being wheeled out of the building on a gurney under heavy sedation. In this one, he's given a blank check for a platform of Policy by Ignorance.