All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer
Today, I was reading some writer's account of how Americans no longer trust their government. According to her, this has led to our high covid death rate and our low vaccination rates. She cited a Lancet piece.
To this I say two words. No shit.
You see, I don't know how old the author is. Perhaps she has not lived long enough to see the cumulative effect of being told lie after lie after lie for 60 years.
Hundreds of huge lies. Like the Federal Reserve Bank, the assassination and cover up "investigation" (complete with sealed records) of a US President, the Gulf of Tonkin, the alleged gold in Fort Knox nobody has seen for 50 years, oil shortages, free trade agreements which ruined our economy, and hijacked elections. Thousands of small lies whispered in our ears about US banking fraud, healthcare, inflation and ending with Friday's unbelievable and completely government manufactured, jobs report with the highest revisions in the history of data reporting.
You would have to be a complete idiot to ignore all the lies and the moral decay of the past 6 decades.
All that shit has a cumulative effect on anyone with half a brain that's been paying attention. You begin to realize just how corrupt we've become as a nation but the very worst part of that is the realization that there is no coming back. There is no saving our Republic. You are witnessing the death of a nation in real time.
You know what else angers me? These idiots who say we get the "government we deserve."
Just what the fuck does that mean? Oh, I know what some people think it means. You know what I think we deserve? A truthful government with a very limited job description. Adherence to the Constitution. The rule of law with punishment to those who violate the law. Rich or otherwise.
Trying to install any sort of change would land us in prison. Or dead. Yet somehow, we deserve this government? I don't think so.
I have lived Schopenhauer's quote on truth. I have seen it firsthand. I have also seen the results of truths which were once ridiculed and then violently opposed.
That's going to be the fate of our covid response. People failing to mask up and take drugs from our drug dealing government have been ridiculed and opposed. In the coming years, what is happening today, will be seen for what it was. A ridiculous government response which helped kill a million or so Americans because of suppressed information and feeding a fear driven mob of dumbasses into ridiculing those of us that no longer trust anything the government does.
Be patient. It won't take long to become self evident.
