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In reality that doesn’t work, for two reasons.

Firstly:

The government could simply start out just with social security recipients and move from there. This one piece would be massive.

Those on social security already lost their freedom years ago and are wards of the state. They will not refuse a programmable digital currency. Not enough of them to make a difference anyways. It’s just another check so what’s the big deal? It buys my food, that’s all I need.

Move up from there - unemployment recipients; then food stamp recipients; then pieces of the populace of government employees - teachers, postal workers, the military, air traffic/airports/TSA, and other people in the bureaucracy.

Manipulate medicare to only accept the new “correct” currency.

Any one of these can be first. The order I stated them is irrelevant. It’s likely that the teachers could be first, since they would openly embrace it. They also play a good foil on TV for selling the scheme. “See, it’s safe for teachers. It’s safe for you too. Come get your digital currency today!”

It’s not difficult for government to win this, one piece at a time. Not difficult at all. Progressivism has always triumphed by doing it piecemeal, going all the way back to Theodore Roosevelt.

Secondly:

We can’t even get conservatives to move in significant numbers off of Big Tech and its going on years now that the tech companies have been harassing us. People just keep taking it and hoping it will magically go away instead of doing anything about it. Those who refused to fight Big Tech, literally refused, aren’t up to fight the digital currency. It’s not going to happen. Show me your past I’ll show you your future.

We have great people; the best people. But they refuse activism. Activism is a dirty word and even dirtier to conduct. It will not happen.