It is amazing to me that at the exact moment that America began to awaken to the fact that COVID hysteria has been one colossal farce, a new national crisis emerged to fill the gap, again triggering our emotions, short-circuiting our ability to think. We are told to take sides, either for the protests or against them. We were also told to take sides during COVID madness: you’re either on the side of Science and lockdowns, or you’re just a backward, deplorable, Trump-voting moron! As Jimmy Dore has said, chaos benefits the powerful. Division benefits the Political Class, who are now rushing in to take full advantage of that chaos.
Will we soon see the U.S. military deployed on U.S. streets, battling rampaging mobs of U.S. citizens? That seems to be a certainty at the moment, unless the rioters decide to pack it up and go home. Will a new PATRIOT Act-style piece of totalitarian legislation be drawn up and passed in order to quell the nihilistic insurrection?
Liberty is unstable, because it offends our inner savage. When powerful social forces align to coax out that inner barbarian, liberty dissolves before our eyes.
