Recently, beloved Sesame Street character Big Bird went on television and social media to promote COVID-19 vaccines. For anyone who has been conscious for at least a few years, celebrities—especially ones with larger fanbases amongst the youth of the country—promoting public health initiatives is not surprising. It has been going on forever and ever. The Republican Party, pretending everything that is happening at all times has never happened before and will lead to communism, decided it was time to attack the bleeding heart liberal Big Bird for trying to “indoctrinate” children with good public health policy. Led by Sen. Ted Cruz—who has never met a low he could not find his way below—the anti-vaccine, anti-democracy crowd stirred up as much dirt as they could in order to continue their obfuscation of the very simple facts: The Republican Party has no solutions to any of America’s problems. The backwardness of the pretend “culture war” the GOP has fostered in their blustering about Dr. Seuss and critical race theory—whatever they think that is—is nowhere more apparent than in these attacks. Before Big Bird found herself in the middle of a political discourse below the grade level Big Bird speaks to, there were people like famed conservative entertainer Elvis Presley, who promoted young people going out to get the “jab.” Read more