VDH: Our Most Important Institutions Are Losing The Respect Of Middle America

And rightly so.

   We've seen how vulnerable they are to a combination of stupidity, cowardice and groupthink. They've all proven willing to accept laughable, insane bullshit at the drop of a hat. This is also why "conservatives"--i.e., basically anyone who doesn't immediately drop to one (or both) knee(s) to worship the gods of Woketarianism--have lost faith in experts. Experts--many of them, at any rate--don't deserve to be listened to anymore. They've ceded their epistemic authority by accepting idiotic, cultish dogma...and, worse, pretending that their unrelated expertise makes them qualified to decree that we all must accept it too. Surely this can't be as widespread as it seems to be--but it's widespread among "public experts." There's no doubting that. And regular experts, who are doing their jobs instead of seeking the limelight and preaching their private political preferences from the pulpit provided by their expertise in unrelated fields--are letting it happen. They're not directly responsible, obviously. But they are--apparently--sitting by and watching it happen. If anything should outrage them and move them to quasi-public action, you'd think it would be the misuse of their discipline's epistemic authority. Maybe they're acting behind the scenes. I'm sure some are. Others are supporting the cultists. Even informing the public that there is disagreement in the discipline would be much better than nothing. At any rate, when we see 1,200 doctors saying the most absurdly idiotic nonsense about BLM protests being exempt from lockdowns because [insert idiotic progressive bullshit here]. and there's no visible pushback...well...what sort of idiot would continue to accord the medical profession exactly the same amount of respect they accorded it before it went batshit crazy? (Or at least: revealed itself to be so.)

   Sane, normal, reasonable people are watching our institutions and experts lose their minds. And sane, normal, reasonable people are being sane, normal and reasonable: they're updating their beliefs in accordance with this new evidence.