Posted on 08/29/2021 10:25:54 AM PDT by John Semmens
During a press conference, Presidential Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted that "the last year and a half has taken its toll on people's health and sanity. But it has also enabled the government to pioneer new ways of governance. Things that might not ever occurred to us have been done with resounding success."
"Among these things was a realization of how liberating a declared emergency can be," she said. "Normally, there are months or years between the origin of an idea for making the country better and getting it enacted by Congress. The emergency allowed the president, the state governors, and local governments to streamline the process by simply issuing mandates for people to shelter at home, for businesses to close down, requiring that people wear masks in certain locations, to get vaccinated if they want to keep their job or enter government and commercial spaces."
"We learned that we can spare our citizens the tedium of extended debate over how a situation should be handled by working with Facebook, Twitter, and others to discredit or censor incorrect opinions," she added. "Our friends at CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and others helped augment the panic needed to soften the average person's resistance to being ordered to do things they didn't want to do. We even got neighbor to turn on neighbor and family members to disown their disobedient kinfolk."
"All of these innovations in how the nation is governed permanently changes the structure of our democracy for the better," Psaki asserted. "We have taught the American people that the old ways of struggle and individual decision making are unnecessary. They can have confidence that the government will take care of them. We will provide for their needs. We will nurture their spirit of collective unity. All everyone needs to do is listen and obey and a stress-free happy life will follow."
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