…We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.
This is how you persuade a populace to voluntarily march in lockstep with a police state and police themselves (and each other): by ratcheting up the fear-factor, meted out one carefully calibrated crisis at a time, and teaching them to distrust any who diverge from the norm through elaborate propaganda campaigns.
Hey, by and large, I agree with the vast majority of stuff that you post, and, I expect, your political stance overall. I don’t disagree that modern journalistic integrity can largely be described as spinelessly feckless.
But using a well-known conservative source that quotes extremely conservative (not to mention, Russian) and libertarian sources and arguments isn’t something I would do. The argument can be made perfectly well using more legitimate and reputable sources that don’t lean in to conspiracy theory idiocy and general chaos-sowing anti-western narratives as a modus operandi.
My point is that your argument is not wrong, but the article and the sources it cites are more than a bit bullshit, and that both the article and the linked sources have ulterior motives of their own that you or I find nakedly regressive and abhorrent.
This is exactly what the author addresses as well. Divide and conquer.