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“...[a police state is ] a nation in which the government can issue orders and edicts or convey preferences with no legal authority. Yet, it appears the majority of the American people are willing to sacrifice their freedoms and way of life in order to empower such a potential police state in the guise of conquering a pandemic.”

Here's the thing....this is a well-written piece. And very, very true.

But that bit about the majority of American people willing to sacrifice their freedoms and way of life" is NOT TRUE>

First, it is us common people with our common sense, we who carry this country on our backs, who stop at 4-way stops and fairly ascertain who got there first...we have all the power.

The problem with this power is we number in the millions and have no leader. President Trump is the first leader we've had in decades. Obama? A pretty face Manchurian candidate. Dubya....come on...first he's a dumb bell and second courage was never his forte.

This pandemic.....for a while, for just a little while, the common people decided to follow the direction of the elected leaders as we pondered how to handle this.

Yet they keep offending us. That Governor of Va not only shuts down a church, he says he's going to shut it down completely after this is all over.

The common people out here who carry this country on our backs, we hear this. We have no leader yet to call us to arms (Rush Limbaugh could be considered a source but turns out he's too scared).

Give it time. The people of this country are going to rise up. We are NOT going to spend our lives confined to our homes by the likes of that Blackface Governor. We will, eventually, weigh all the data and we WILL, we WILL, revolt.

We probably won't gather our guns and go shooting the place up. But give it time and as a culture, a group, a society, we shall flip those people the bird and go to church, send our kids to school.....

Give it time. They will not win.

We should still have no leader save for executive authority enumerated in the constitution, only representatives.

I like the way you see things. Perhaps you are right on the citizens really aren’t willing to sacrfice their freedoms, it is only that they are giving the elected (I am not sure many are true leaders) a chance as we ponder how to handle this. Though a number of people I have talked to in public places (who keep a safe distance) seem in real fear, have a “what if it is true” negates all else.