In the 1910s there was an average of 6000 measles-related deaths annually. The first vaccine for it was available in 1963, but the goal to eradicate measles was not until 1978 (by the CDC), and the final eradication in the US was by the year 2000. I looked up this information in order to see how the post-war generation benefitted from one of the most important vaccine programs in history. I'd say that the so-called information warfare of the past few decades (which has been also a class warfare) has now destroyed an essential aspect of the so-called American Dream: a pursuit of truth and scientific fact and the separation of church and state (which has protected religious freedom as well as secular governance). That's part of a post-truth political discourse today. And I think it's also the Heritage Foundation's plan for bulding a banana republic, ruled by an oligarchy. The latest Texas measles outbreak is I think an important sign of this ongoing division and destruction of the American experience. TL:DR - a 1st world country with 3rd world problems is a victim of its oligarchy.