Reading comments about vaccine passports shows me just how many people don't mind, and even desire, to be ruled by a corporatist-government partnership.
Many people may not directly state that they want authoritarian government, but they reveal it in the way they talk about issues like this.
What would ordinarily be at least mildly surprising (although it's not given the current state of polarization and tribalism) is that many on the left have little concern for the shared control of power between government and corporate America.
Many on all sides (including some libertarians) have resorted to the tired "private businesses can do what they want" defense without probing the issue further to try to understand how a corporatist-government partnership will wield power.
The standard test that people ought to consider when empowering someone or something is whether you would mind your worst enemy having this same power? Would many on the left still want vaccine passports if they were proposed by Trump?
If the answer is different, then maybe we should step back and reconsider the grant of power in the first place. In the case of vaccine passports, I think the case is already obvious. But time will tell if this plays out along those lines.
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