A movement with a distorted sense of individual rights that would seek to hamper vaccination in the midst of a global health crisis is reactionary to the core and hostile to human life itself. The dangerous rise of the anti-vax far-right is a symptom of a sickness in this society that we will still be confronting well after the last wave of the pandemic has finally receded.
What Yog said is true, but it should also be mentioned that the far-right has used crazed conspiracies to convert followers for generations, and anti-vax is one of many.
If they can prey on a person’s mental illness (in this case paranoia), then they can convince this person that only the far-right has the answers that can solve this problem, that they made up. This is why Infowars and Breitbart were popularized in the early 2000s, and are still massive far-right entities today. All of the wild conspiracies of this nature, the Illuminati, reptilians, aliens at A52, Op Jade Helm being a training op for enacting modern enslavement of Americans, FEMA mass-producing coffins (they were actually just helicopter basket liners) being evidence that the government intended to lead a genocide of Americans, etc. are all intended to bring people on the fringe into the far-right. And this propaganda absolutely works, in fact, it worked on teenage me.
Yeah. Feels like anti-science thought is bound to emerge and propagate from bourgois ideology.