“The real danger here is that they will scape-goat the rational objector and persecute them.”
Yup—we are seeing this with “climate change”.
1. Make up an insane theory and keep pushing it decade after decade.
2. When the prophecies fail ignore the failed prophecies and double down.
3. Accuse anyone who objects of not “following the science” and ban them from academia and government.
4. Ban the speech on social media of anyone who raises even the slightest issue with the insane theory.
Same with the lab leak, and the people censored for that. Same with vax risks, and the people censored for that.
In Canada, a whole subculture of “Indian Residential School Mass Graves” has been created by the Trudeau gov’t, despite the fact that not a single skeleton has been found.
And now we have politicians proposing to criminalize “denial” of Residential School graveyards.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/should-residential-school-denialism-declared-hate-speech-1.6744100
Putin is absolutely right. The Globohomo American Empire and all their subalterns (like Trudeau) is entirely an Empire of Lies.