Posted on 01/20/2023 4:37:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
The government's determination to censor Americans' COVID experiences has only strengthened their resolve.
Friends of freedom generally agree about four points:
(1) Protections for expansive individual liberty and respect for limited government are essential for the promotion of human rights, self-determination, and prosperity.
(2) Over the course of American history, the U.S. government has strayed far beyond the original limitations of its enumerated powers as set forth in the Constitution.
(3) Globalism, international government, plutocracy, rule by "elite" experts, unchecked bureaucracy, and the steady erosion of inalienable rights all work to maximize the power of centralized authority while minimizing the power of individual citizens.
(4) The most important conflict raging today is between individual liberty and coercive State control.
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As an important example of how quickly social revolutions can upend entire systems, I encourage you to take a look at a recent article on The Conservative Treehouse in which intrepid intellectual warrior Sundance has asked his readers a simple question: if you did not take the COVID-19 shots, why not? The impetus for his inquiry comes from an informal poll he had conducted showing that 85% of CTH's Twitter followers remained un-jabbed. Even though his readers have always had a healthy skepticism of government, Sundance was surprised that such a high percentage would have withstood the years-long pressure campaign for universal "vaccination" from the combined efforts of government, news media, medical authorities, and corporate proselytizers. What he got in response to his question is nothing less than stunning.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
But there were plenty of “conservatives” who were all in on the statist COVID mandates even when there was data coming out about ineffectiveness and even harmful effects. Many were not even sceptical when threats were being used worldwide to force compliance. Why didn’t more people ask: If the vaccine protects you, why is someone who does not want the jab any danger to you?
Talk about the elephant in the room, “Why didn’t more people ask: If the vaccine protects you, why is someone who does not want the jab any danger to you?”
Sadly, in my opinion, people didn’t ask because they lost the skill of CRITICAL THINKING? Dumbing down schools for the past 50 years is having the desired effect. Schools create weak, malleable minds that are easily swayed by propaganda.
Questioning the so called “facts” is in my opinion a survival technique developed over thousands of years. Liberals are just like lemmings, one goes over the cliff the rest will follow.
How about all the so-called germophpbe Libertarians who believe themselves better than the lowley religious conservatives that fell in line with government medical authoritarianism? There are quite a few of these scaredy cat hypocrites around as well.
Back in the 1960s, it was the Left that stood up to authority and oppressive governments. Conservatives were seen as squares and conformists. It amazes me how both sides have done 180s.
“Why didn’t more people ask: If the vaccine protects you, why is someone who does not want the jab any danger to you?”
..... people didn’t ask because they lost the skill of CRITICAL THINKING
Liberals are just like lemmings, one goes over the cliff the rest will follow.
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From my experience, it wasn’t just ‘Liberals’. Almost all in my family are staunch conservatives and they went over the ‘vax’ cliff. Most are what I would call ‘critical thinkers’, but they were stampeded by a coordinated campaign of FEAR, which overrode their critical thinking. What comes to mind are the pictures of American Indians, stampeding buffalo over a cliff. Once ‘fear’ infected the herd and one started running, the rest followed.
People were being told if they got COVID they would DIE. No treatments, you were a goner and the only way to save yourself and your family was to get the shot. They got the shot.
What is interesting is that once the dust settled from the stampede, two things became apparent: 1. If you got COVID, odds were you would not die 2. If you got the shot, odds were you were getting COVID anyway. Most of those in our family stopped at either one shot or two. Everyone has had COVID and thanks to me, the “conspiracy theorist” as I was called, they were all made aware of early treatments (FLCCC primarily) and came through just fine. Do they regret the shots? I think the tide is turning that way .... the “epidemic” is no longer COVID, it’s now cancer, new and recurring, in family and friends. Some of those ‘critical thinkers’ are now starting to connect the dots. There have been no sudden deaths, but a half dozen or so friends/acquaintances, in addition to the folks now with cancer, are seeing a cardiologist for the first time due to Afib and/or very high BP since the shots A question heard the other day (Afib): “do you think it could be the shots? I didn’t have these problems until I got the shots!”.
I’m one of those who no longer trusts the medical establishment, FDA, or CDC, mistakenly thinking they were apolitical. “Follow the science” has obviously morphed into “follow the money.” I’d already stopped trusting media, academia and the government a long time ago. They’re agenda-driven and I’m opposed to their agenda.
Proverbs 22:3
The prudent man looketh well to his going, but the fool goes on and is punished.
Fear drove the whole thing. People fell for it, because of the hyped up fear.
Agree. To deliberately ramp up that level of fear in people was/is criminal.
That’s exactly right, here in FR, when someone posts an article about someone dropping dead from a heart attack in the prime of their lives, a number of people on FR will make a derogatory post about “stop blaming the vaccines”, etc...even though there is ample evidence of heart damage especially in young people brought on by the vaccines.
Exactly. And they artificially inflated the fear by refusing to permit effective early treatments that were near miraculous in other countries, driving up the body count. How many people died needlessly?
I don’t think a 180 was done. Back in the 60s the commies were a small minority so their tactics were to use our systems against us.
But now they have finished their long march, their mask comes off.
They did ask, which is why the government and their pfascist korporate counterparts censored Twitter, Fakebook, etc.
Nuremberg II
Thanks for sharing this important article.
People argued to me “everybody else got it”. So I said “ Then why do I need it?”
One of the dirty little secrets of vaccinations is that they are not 100% effective. Salk's original polio vaccine was considered a great success when it reduced polio by 80% compared to the double blind control group*. To wipe out the disease you need to both reduce your individual chance to get it along with reducing the number of cases everyone else gets so a large infectious population isn't out there. This is one reason smallpox could be wiped out because only people could get it compared to the flu which has vast, unvaccinated animal populations that can spread it and host mutations.
*control group? double blind study? tracking of side effects? "Science" doesn't have time for that. The entire world must get the shot NOW!
Why didn’t people ask...?
If we asked, then we got hit from all sides for being sceptical about the shots. Also, the government’s tyrannical actions were unpredictable. It was safer if people didn’t know if we were un-jabbed.
They call it vaccine hesitancy still. My only hesitancy was in telling people that I had not gotten the shots or the tests either for that matter.
These are interesting times...
the people that claim the experimental shots are “safe and effective” also claim men can cut off their family jewels and convert to women...
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