I expect all of us here see this, although the details understandably vary somewhat based on our backgrounds and perspective.
I just want to encourage everyone to keep a particular filter in mind: "Think like a criminal" is what I call it, because that is the filter I was taught, myself, back in the early 2000s. I was pretty skeptical of the filter, back then, when it was IMMENSELY harder to be sure of deliberate planning and systematic malevolence VS. "stupidity", "incompetence" and "innocent mistakes",
It is MUCH safer, at this point, to just presume there are no mistakes -- EVERYTHING (including "conservative" response -- is deliberate; everything is part of the plan. In addition, they are throwing on a lot of "NOISE" and red-herrings (e.g., I suspect Q-Anon) to make us doubt our own sanity and, certainly , to make us look like "conspiracy nuts" to many around us. It is all part of the techniques first worked out in detail by Hitler's crew and, in the US, Bernays. Except now it is being leveraged with the internet and the surveillance state apparatus / big tech.
It is almost as important to not chase every rumor and fear as it is to keep your eye on the basic prize and principles and likely "cui bono".
THINK LIKE A CRIMINAL WILL LEAD YOU DOWN THE RIGHT PATH MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, especially on the "mainstream media" material you cannot totally avoid seeing. Even Fox news is part of this, I think, even if often enough they give us tidbits of truth.
Anyway, Atomic Bobbers ;-) keep your wits about you, Follow the money, follow the power, ask Cui Bono a lot! If you haven't read "Creature from Jekyll Island" yet, it may not be new but it is STILL invaluable for getting your head properly in the game. They are playing for all the marbles and too many of us are too distracted by noise. That is all by plan, have no doubt.
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon
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