The cultural programming within right-wing alternative media is to promote an idealized past while fearing the proposed progressive utopian future. This is why right-leaning conspiracy theorists have a knee-jerk superstitious dread of new technology and drink only raw milk.
They fall into the "science versus religion" dialectic.
It is true science today is infused with religiousity and faith-based belief, however, traditional religion provides an equally fallacious worldview.
The left versus right polarity is a tug-of-war between these two opposing worldviews.
The Left sees media as a church and trusts its priesthood to save them from viruses, both physical and mental (misinformation and other mind viruses). The censorship of alternate media and ubiquitous vaccination is how we save the world in their view.
The Right sees media as Satan's church and Science as the religion and rejects its priesthood's recommended injectable eucharist and its teachings. This means that the Right is unsaved and Protestant to the church of mainstream media. The Left is considered "satanic" to the Right because they reject religious salvation and take the "mark of the Beast." Each side sees the other as unsaved.
The Right fell for the Satanic Panic, Pizza Gate hysteria, and QAnon. They fear Satan and sin, not pandemics and memes.
The Left fell for the Scamdemic and is terrified of free speech. They fear Climate Change, COVID-19, and misinformation.
Pro-vax and Anti-Vax positions plug into Progressive Utopianism and Regressive Traditionalism. MAGA is an expression of the idealized past, as in, "make America great like before feminism and civil rights."
If you're not ANTI-PRO and ANTI-ANTI, chances are, you're in a box.
The point of identifying these false dilemmas is to remain UnCompartmentalized.
Tim Ozman.
IPR HOST