Gandalf
The Orange/White Wizard
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The one lasting impact is I did not previously foresee how quickly America (even in red states) could lurch toward a totalitarian, thought crime regime. And not just the feds but many governors quickly grabbed massive dictatorial powers based on very specious reasoning and were very loathe to give them up. Laws were quickly changed to facilitate manipulation of results in key elections and in coordination with a technocrat oligarchy that amplified the approved messaging.
What surprised me is not the power grab, since the call to power is inherent in every politico, but it was how quickly we as a nation threw away freedoms for the false promises of security that would be provided for us in the ever near future if we would just obey now. Diehard rednecks and skeptical New Yorkers alike completely gave up any rational thought to follow the ever-changing diktats of the local and national regimes. When the children yelled out that the Emporer had no clothes, the crowd simply beat them and drove them away. This was the most terrifying thing. Not only was it perceived to be actual violence to speak against the propaganda approved for that day but even to mildly ask questions of it was to be an anathema to all society and to be blotted out at any cost. And no, it was not the government holding you down, it is your neighbor. Those whom you have known for 10+ years, now shun you and your children for not wearing a mask as the symbol of your adherence to the new religion of the righteous, they who worship the Science (so determined by the priests of the temple of the CDC). It is your neighbors and former friends who block you, who cheer loudly for keeping you from lifesaving healthcare because of your unvaccinated status, who call Child protective services to take your children from you because you have not given them to the state, who call for you to be fired from your job.
If this has taught me anything, it is just how far too easily we think that the German people were so different than us when they bought into the Goebbels propaganda machine. I always knew it could happen again, human nature being what it is but I thought in this country, with its inherent distrust of government, it would take more time. That there would be more warning. That's probably what the Jews thought too.
This round of totalitarian insanity seems to be dissipating due to the facts on the ground making it difficult to sustain the charade - but you can be sure, even as we speak, the seeds of the next wave have been sown in deep and fertile soil.
What surprised me is not the power grab, since the call to power is inherent in every politico, but it was how quickly we as a nation threw away freedoms for the false promises of security that would be provided for us in the ever near future if we would just obey now. Diehard rednecks and skeptical New Yorkers alike completely gave up any rational thought to follow the ever-changing diktats of the local and national regimes. When the children yelled out that the Emporer had no clothes, the crowd simply beat them and drove them away. This was the most terrifying thing. Not only was it perceived to be actual violence to speak against the propaganda approved for that day but even to mildly ask questions of it was to be an anathema to all society and to be blotted out at any cost. And no, it was not the government holding you down, it is your neighbor. Those whom you have known for 10+ years, now shun you and your children for not wearing a mask as the symbol of your adherence to the new religion of the righteous, they who worship the Science (so determined by the priests of the temple of the CDC). It is your neighbors and former friends who block you, who cheer loudly for keeping you from lifesaving healthcare because of your unvaccinated status, who call Child protective services to take your children from you because you have not given them to the state, who call for you to be fired from your job.
If this has taught me anything, it is just how far too easily we think that the German people were so different than us when they bought into the Goebbels propaganda machine. I always knew it could happen again, human nature being what it is but I thought in this country, with its inherent distrust of government, it would take more time. That there would be more warning. That's probably what the Jews thought too.
This round of totalitarian insanity seems to be dissipating due to the facts on the ground making it difficult to sustain the charade - but you can be sure, even as we speak, the seeds of the next wave have been sown in deep and fertile soil.
