We've been lulled by normalcy bias, thinking America the Land of the Free would continue forever, that there is no way the communists would take over. Every once formerly-free people thought that. "We are too mature, too smart to let tyranny take over."
“We’ve been lulled by normalcy bias, thinking America the Land of the Free would continue forever,...”
Yepp, and that we believed in the rule of law, that those elected, the judiciary and the unelected who administered the givernment functions would protect our institutions and our individual freedoms, from all threats foreign and domestic. We were living as good citizens, paying our taxes, voting, going to church, working, taking care of family, volunteering in the community, keeping up on the news ... and then 2020 exposed how much of our institutions were as fake as the media trying to pass themselves off as the 4th estate. Let’s not put the blame on us, and beat ourselves up too badly, we have our work cut out. Our form of givernment metastasized into something some prescient people warned us about, but we could not see it in our daily lives. In fact some of us loved it (Medicare, Social Security, you name it) or took it because “we paid into it”, I am entitled. Givernment brings socialism, and it has become to large to succeed. All the other rotten fruits of socialism are now coming for harvest.