Anti-Vaxxers and the Trojan Horse.

As we approach peak-anti-vaxxerdom, I find it easier to imagine places like ancient Rome watching their empire fall apart and not knowing what to do. The tale of the Trojan horse is telling. You have an obvious ruse, and yet the people choose something like the ephemeral gods over logic. And they paid the price. 
With us, we actually have the  knowledge to do better as a nation and yet we're choosing the feels (the conman's feeling of god's words) over logic.
This goes for Climate Change and foreign policy and things like anti-vaxxers or allowing the nation to be torn by inequality. If ISIS were smart it would be them behind these kinds of movements that tear this nation apart in more insidious ways than just direct action attacks. 
But they're not (that I know of) and we're once again embracing that which will destroy us. 
With the anti-vaxxers I'm not sure why that strain of stupid is peaking. Could be that people are getting sick via inequality (yeah that's a real thing, read a book) and blaming all sorts of things except those in power (or maybe this is their way of blaming certain powers... a self-destruction that will allow them to spite others with a kind of pox on all by destroying herd immunity). 
To be serious a moment, the life expectancy of this nation is going down. And no one is talking about that at all. No one. Should be front fucking page news, but no one wants to mentioned it. Want to know why that is? It's not entirely healthcare, though that's a damn joke (or grift, given everything seems to be that today). It's inequality (to which lack of health care access plays a part).  
I want the next person to talk about national security or healthcare to talk inequality. It's killing the nation.
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