I understand what you're trying to say here, and why you're explaining it.
The vaccine probably won't actually do much harm. It's just about compliance.
I figured as much, but "much harm" to the state, and "much harm" to the public are two very different things.
They should be giving saline. I don't care that it doesn't work. It'd be cheaper on the margins of the corporations make it anyway.
I know why, because again compliance to unreasonable demands means its real compliance. Otherwise its not a test.
But broadly speaking they are creating unintended consequences: there is a segment of the public that is forming hard opposition to any dictatorship.
I don't see it as sustainable.
The u.s. will turn into Afghanistan in a few years if they keep up this strategy.
I don't know how they expect to pay for the amount of troops it will require to subdue the u.s. permanently, with resistance increasing over every week and month it goes on, without going broke. Hell, we're already broke as a nation.
And thats set to get worse with our failure on the international stage sealing the fate of the dollar.
Maybe the military has some level of competence here, but I don't think the bureaucrats have any real long term vision of where they're going with this, except what you said: holding onto power at all costs.
Which means the u.s. governments gonna kill fucking boatloads more americans. A few million here, a few million there. Maybe more.
Thats the only way I see them doing it.
Tell me I'm wrong.
It'll come to a point where there will be installed, by one means or another, a benevolent dictator or a dictator which just repositions facets of government. Ultimately, if things go well, said dictator will reform the government, installing his own and removing the rutt, or will play another ruse on the sleepy sheep and we'll restart the 20-30 year cycle again where they pause for a generation and then get back to where they started. I'm leaning heavily toward the benevolent option, but I'll admit that's probably out of preference. There's a catch though: if the preference spreads to other people and more begin to imagine what that might look like, the chances of that happening are higher. There's a lot to be gained by informing people that it's even a possibility. It's actually the opposite, the counter, to what plenty tend to call "predictive programming".
The riots looked like tantrums from the senate chambers, I'm sure.
From the ground floor of america, it was basically an apocalypse.
And a lot of people have been living with that in their head ever since.
a benevolent dictator
I don' think they have the wisdom for that or the convenience. What was allowed to happen, encouraged even, was malevolence. Call it disillusionment, but I don't see americans embracing that idea. But what do I know.
I do see recent wins we've been handed as possibly the public being given the opportunity to "correct" the balance of the nation, but from seeing it, it still looks like a we-dont-care-have-this-win-its-all-fucked-anyway-and-we'll-do-worse-in-time manuever by the state.
Let's just say that all we really need to do is pretend to be unified and content, even if we aren't.
Think about it like this: You're a Kindergarten teacher. Your kids are all tired and you know they need to take a nap, but they refuse because you won't play the video they like. They form groups, some want to watch one video, another group, another video. You know they need to go to sleep or there will be several kinds of repercussions; their parents might get upset, the kids might get grouchy, etc. So you devise a plan - you grab two laptops, one has each video on it and you let them have at it. As it turns out, they formed even more groups and there's now four groups who want to watch videos.
What do you do now? Do you keep catering to their splintering, do you get them to unify, or do you give up on them? Imagine if you were a kid. Would you go around, provoke further splintering and causing fights, or would you try to get everyone to calm down so you all get some benefit and ultimately reach a compromise? But you're the teacher. You know what's best for them. You know what they don't know, which is especially important.
That's where we are. How do we help each other? We watch one fucking video, we go to sleep and we deal with the splintering after we all wake up again. We don't bitch at the teacher. It isn't his fault. He only has so many laptops. The real issue is each other and our inability to swallow our pride momentarily, deal with watching something we don't want to that badly, finding a way to get to sleep and waking up again so we can get the day over with, go back home and do whatever we want afterward.
Now, I'm not saying we all compromise all our morals, our freedoms or even our privileges. But what we do need to do is realize what the actual problem is, address it and agree the problem is over long enough to have a survivable structure. We've done the whole "burn everything to the ground" thing many, many times. The issue is, we ended up losing a lot more than we could stomach each time and have had to completely rebuild all of those times. This time we have a good opportunity. This time, there's a few parents watching, rooting for us, hoping we all pick the right show to watch together, to take our naps in peace and to wake up again and go our separate ways, eager to visit with each other again tomorrow.
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