Left-adjacent arguments could reclaim some voters from vaccine-hesitant right discourse

Evidence

“I’d first validate their fears about data. Tell them that your top priority is safeguarding their privacy and keeping their personal information out of the hands of private tech companies. Pivot the conversation to the need to regulate those companies, break them up, treat them as public utilities, guarantee everyone’s right to be part of a digital town square. Show them that there is a way to stick it to Big Tech without putting their life and other people’s lives in danger.” … “Same with Big Pharma. Remember, people have good reason to loathe these companies. Pivot to common ground: why lifesaving treatments and medicines shouldn’t be run for profit in the first place. Shift to the need to expand public health care to include prescription drugs. Talk about how we can create good jobs in public health and preventive medicine.” … He knew all these arguments inside out, had been making them for years. It was just a recasting, a way to take some territory back from the Mirror World. I thought this strategy had a decent chance of working with some voters, ones who had only glanced into the looking glass here and there. But for those people who had stepped all the way through, I didn’t hold out much hope that Avi, charming as he is, was going to bring them back. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 547

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core of the ‘diagonalism’ analytic device — that the left abandoned these grievances and the right metabolized them. Klein’s own book thesis.
• SEED: An essay on how to message vaccine persuasion to the vaccine-hesitant left: validate the distrust, then pivot to structural solutions rather than shaming.