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A pet squirrel craze swept colonial America. Everyone who was anyone, including the founding fathers, had a pet squirrel or was friends with someone who did.
Many voters, feeling disillusioned, are searching in vain for narratives that resonate with their experiences.
No replication competent obligate intracellular parasite required.
If you criticize the government, or if you compare the government to Nazi Germany, and if you do that using your book-cover art featuring a swastika behind a Covid mask, then you’re absolutely officially a “hate criminal,” and an “anti-Semite,” and a “trivializer of the Holocaust.”
The parallels between the present day and the witchcraft accounts that flew off the printing presses of 16th-century Europe are all too clear. Today, the hunt has shifted to groups used as scapegoats for the economic deprivation and other ills that blight our societies.
With Covid, we experienced first-hand what can be done to our civil rights and to our Constitutionally guaranteed electoral and governmental processes when a fear-driven, emergency-based takeover of society occurs.
Germ theory and virology are not the result of solid scientific explorations or groundbreaking discoveries. Instead, they’re the products of political maneuvering, established by some of the most unscrupulous scientific and political actors of their time.
If the New Normal Right did not already exist, GloboCap would be forced to invent it. It needs a convincing boogeyman — or, actually, a diverse collection of boogeymen — to serve as an excuse for its evolution into a pathologized-totalitarian system.