Auto-eugenics in America

A significant proportion of Republican voters are striving to remove themselves from the gene pool by refusing to be vaccinated, and they can’t vote Republican if they are dead. Losing an extra 50,000 guaranteed Republican voters to COVID-19 each month is bound to have an impact in at least some marginal elections next year.

U.S. President Joe Biden, pictured in this file photo, was on national television on Sept. 9 urging unvaccinated Americans to get the jabs, and declaring 'vaccine mandates' that oblige federal employees and companies that employ more than one hundred people to do so. He even allowed himself a little anger towards the more than 80 million Americans who are still refusing vaccination. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 13, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Eugenics was a 20th-century pseudo-science that purported to improve the human breed by weeding out the ‘least fit,' often by measures like compulsory sterilization or, in the case of the Nazis, death camps. But this is the 21st century, and now people can do it for themselves. ‘...

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