The Conservative Infection
A Political Dark Age
In 2025, we are not living in a time of political discourse. We are not navigating ideological differences. We are surviving a deliberate and calculated attempt to plunge society back into the dark ages, politically, economically, and intellectually.
Conservatism, as it exists today, is not a political ideology. It's a mass psychological disorder, an intentional infection of the collective consciousness. Like a virus that weakens the immune system, today’s conservatism targets the fundamental structures that sustain democracy and social progress. It operates through misinformation, fear, and regression, ensuring that those infected by its rhetoric are incapable of processing reality beyond reactionary dogma.
To understand the magnitude of this infection, we only need to examine the rapid resurgence of measles in the United States, a disease once nearly eradicated, now returning due to anti-science hysteria. The same forces that enable the unchecked spread of infectious disease are those driving modern conservatism: a rejection of expertise, a contempt for collective responsibility, and an unwavering commitment to self-destruction masked as freedom.
The New Dark Age is Deliberate
The essential characteristic of a dark age is not simply the absence of knowledge, but the active destruction of it. In medieval Europe, libraries were burned, intellectuals were executed, and the pursuit of understanding was branded as heresy. Today, conservatives burn books figuratively and literally. They gut public education, silence journalists, and manufacture outrage against the very idea of critical thinking.
The right-wing obsession with banning books, vilifying educators, and rejecting scientific consensus is not incidental. It is a systemic and intentional effort to produce a population that does not think, but obeys.
Measles spreads because people refuse to vaccinate against it. Ignorance spreads because people refuse to inoculate themselves against propaganda.
The Political Economy of Stupidity
There is no profit in intelligence for those who control capital. A thinking, engaged public does not tolerate exploitative wages, corporate monopolies, or financial deregulation that benefits the ultra-wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Today’s conservative movement thrives by ensuring that the working class is too angry, too divided, and too misinformed to recognize who their actual enemies are.
The resurgence of preventable diseases in the United States is not just an issue of public health, it's a direct consequence of the commodification of ignorance. The conservative elite do not care whether you or your children die of measles. They care that you are too distracted by manufactured culture wars to notice that your wages have stagnated for decades, that your housing costs are unaffordable, and that your access to basic services is eroding.
Conservatism does not seek to govern. It seeks to maintain a state of profitable chaos.
Fear as a Governance Model
Modern conservatives do not lead. They do not govern. They do not solve problems. Instead, they manufacture crises, instill fear, and then offer themselves as the only solution.
Migrants are not a problem. The economy is. LGBTQ+ people are not a threat. Conservative policies are. The world is not crumbling because of drag shows or climate action. It is crumbling because those in power have structured it to be unsustainable, and they would rather set it on fire than relinquish control.
Fear is a business model, and no one profits from fear more than today’s conservatives.
Measles and Misinformation: The Parallel Epidemics
Measles is back in America, and it's not because vaccines don't work. It's because people have been convinced not to take them.
The same machinery that spreads vaccine misinformation... the shadow networks of conspiracy theorists, the billion-dollar media empires pushing pseudoscience, the cynical political operatives weaponizing distrust... This is the machinery that fuels modern conservatism.
Like a disease, conservative ideology doesn't need to make sense. It only needs to spread.
The conservative voter of 2025 does not believe in policy. They believe in allegiance. Their world is not defined by facts, but by narrative. They do not assess reality, they adopt the version of it that best serves their anger.
Measles was nearly eradicated, just as social progress was once thought inevitable. Death and ignorance have returned, stronger than before, because those in power have realized that an unvaccinated mind is just as profitable as an unvaccinated body.
Canada and the Global Contagion
While Canada has long prided itself on resisting the worst excesses of American conservatism, that resistance is crumbling. Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, is not a politician in the traditional sense. He is a social terrorist, someone who does not participate in governance, but actively undermines it.
Poilievre and his party do not offer solutions. They offer resentment. They do not engage in debate. They engage in destruction.
The Canadian Conservative Party is no longer an institution of policy, it's a franchise of American-style regression. If elected, their governance will not be based on building a better Canada, but on dismantling the one that exists.
What they seek is not leadership, but control.
The Future: Choose Between Progress or Collapse
We are standing at the threshold of history. We can move forward, embracing knowledge, science, and collective responsibility, or we can regress, giving power to those who thrive in ignorance and division.
There is no negotiation with this infection. There is no reasoning with those who see knowledge as the enemy. The only cure for this disease is absolute, overwhelming rejection. Inoculation.
Conservatism is not a political ideology. It is the deliberate cultivation of decay. It is a force that must be eradicated, not debated.
The choice is stark, but it's ours to make.
Will we vaccinate against ignorance, or will we let the infection consume us all?
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We are not in an ideological battle. We are in a political pandemic.
Conservatism isn’t governance. It’s an infection. Like measles, it spreads through misinformation, thrives on ignorance, and destroys everything it touches.
The only cure is inoculation.
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