See. If you want to make the argument that the federal government is overreaching with it's Covid response, okay, I can buy that.
But you lose me when you start saying this is some kind of big conspiracy.
Do you see the way the democrats are stepping all over their own dicks just trying get Biden's stupid infrastructure package passed? And your telling me that this this is the well-oiled political machine that's going to enslave me in the clutches totalitarian government? Come on man..
Which of the following makes more sense:
1. There's a deep state conspiracy involving the FDA, the United Nations, the democrats, Antifa, etc (Trump too apparently since he got the vaccine fast-tracked right?). who are all working in secret coordination to destroy the American constitution and turn the United States into a Marxist society.
Or
2. A bumbling, panicky, inefficient Federal government is flailing around like a spaz trying desperately to control a situation which it hasn't encountered in 100 years?
Good gentlemen of Orangebloods... please! Listen to reason!
I think it's more along these lines--
Power corrupts. Absolutely power corrupts absolutely.
An "opportunity" arose out of chaos and emergency. The nefarious people saw this situation and said "how do I or WE take advantage of this to increase our POWER BASE?"
So they started throwing sh!t up against a wall as fast as they could, to see what would stick. It wasn't "organized" but lots of it was "coordinated".
Let me give you an example. The house speaker is Nancy Pelosi. Most powerful woman in congress. She's from California, and she wants control of as much of California as possible to solidify her legacy. But California is a state, and she is a Federal official.
So--- she turns to her nephew, Gavin Newsome, the governor of California, to get him to implement plans that help consolidate HER power as well as increase his hold Californians. Who wouldn't want to be governor of California for 6 terms?
Now you look at the east coast, who have handled covid responses eerily similary to California-- you know, kinda like they were communicating with each other to have a coordinated response.....
The governor of NY, Cuomo, actually got the media to let him come on NATIONAL LIVE TV DAILY to give updates about his efforts to save NY. Nobody else got this treatment. Not Texas, Cali, Florida-- just NY. Now call me crazy, but that wasn't about ratings, it was about the media GIVING him power and control because they were marching in lock step with his agenda.
The media is not your friend. Everybody say it with me now: the media is NOT your friend. The media cares only about clicks and $$$$$$$$$$.
Because of this, the media was willing to cede a certain amount of power and influence to certain politicians-- and the politicians leapt at the opportunity--- all the while watching other politicians to see how to best consolidated their hold on power, and then implementing those tactics (ham handedly at times) in their own sphere of power. And once someone gets drunk on power, there's no turning that spigot off. You think heroin or meth or cocaine or booze can grab someone and drown them?
Those things don't have sh!t on POWER. Why do you think celebrities OD, act like children, flail about, cut their hair off, crash their Lambo, all the stupid sh!t they do--- because they are drunk on power and influence, OR they are losing their power and influence and are willing to risk their lives and destroy sh!t in a desperate bid to get some of it back.
Politicians are 10,000 times worse than celebrities.
So is this some "global kabal" marching in lock step to control the New World Order so we are all enslaved by government? Not really. But these power hungry mother fvckers are scrambling in that direction, rapidly.