The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention descended into turmoil this week after Health Secretary and zealous anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted the agency’s director, Susan Monarez, who had just weeks ago been confirmed by the Senate and earned Kennedy’s praise for her “unimpeachable scientific credentials.”
It appears those scientific chops are what led to her swift downfall. Since the Department of Health and Human Services announced on X late Wednesday that “Susan Monarez is no longer director” of the CDC, media reports have revealed that her forced removal was over her refusal to bend to Kennedy’s anti-vaccine, anti-science agenda…
The problem quickly becomes the state’s monopoly on violence, which is the core defining feature of a nation.
People can band together and form their own voluntary systems of governance, but the moment they need to enforce anything, which is inevitable even to settle good faith disagreements, it will break down.
The inevitable result of a parallel system of governance is civil war.