I have had the same concerns that you do. I posted this on Facebook a couple days ago.
Last year I read Erik Larson’s non fiction book, In The Garden of Beasts. It is the story of the American Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd and his family living in Berlin during Hitler’s rise to power. The thing that got me about the book was how the people didn’t seem to react to the horrors happening around them. It became so “normal” to them that they acted as though it was just part of life, like going grocery shopping or doing the laundry. I see the same things happening today, people just carrying on with their lives as though all the corruption within our government is no big deal.
Examples include: The IRS targeting TEA party members, Black Lives Thugs attacking/rioting, The Hammond’s being re-sentenced and sent back to jail (after they had already served their time for their supposed crime of lighting a back burn to stop a forest fire), the treatment of the Bundy Family both by the government and the media, the Murder of LaVoy Finicum by government authorities, Hillary Clinton and the Democrat party’s crimes, the coordination of the Press to enable loss of freedom and the ever increasing corruption of the whole system.
I feel like most of America is oblivious to the state of our country. They are self absorbed and they don’t want to be bothered with all these “conspiracy theories”. They have an attention span about as long as a Tweet.
At the same time, I am an optimist and a fighter so I do what I can. When I find a good article, I pick one sentence or a short paragraph and post it on Facebook with a link to the article/video. I make friends with complete strangers at every opportunity- at the doctor’s office, grocery store, etc. Educate people and pray a lot. Also, stock up on all the “End Times” supplies that I can afford and encourage my family and friends to do the same.
Normalcy bias occurs when people are faced by a traumatic situation or something so dramatic that the person has no point of reference, no past experiences to rely on to base judgement calls on. Often the event seems so surreal that the person's only way of dealing with it is to decide that what they have seen happen or is happening is not real and it is as if to them as it isn’t real, then there is no need to do anything or that someone will be along shortly to set things right. Our country is changing right before our eyes and most people can't or won't see it.
Hat tip to the Survival Mom.
Great post, I read that book too, very, VERY powerful. And I think you are onto something as well.
Our Republic is sick, that is evident, but it isn’t just one thing, it is a spectrum of things, which is why I wanted to discuss it with Freepers.
A lot of people not only don’t want to discuss it, I think, they don’t even want to acknowledge it.