1. A dizzying series of crises, real or manufactured, exploding onto consciousness with whiplash speed, produces collective amnesia, interfering with efforts to make sense of what is happening. No sooner was the Russian interference allegation revealed years after it occurred to have been an elaborate hoax, than a routine phone call was made the basis of an impeachment inquiry. Election year 2020 opened with delivery of a lab-engineered NIH-funded virus from Wuhan China to the United States and the rest of the world. The ensuing global pandemic was quickly followed by (A) sweeping U.S. electoral-law changes expanding the franchise to unidentifiable millions, (B) mass house-arrest and restrictions on all forms of association, and (C) forced injections of risky gene-hacking drugs into a terrified and uninformed populace. Taken together with an officially tolerated riot and arson spree in more than 40 U.S. cities during more than six months, these comprised the most devastating attacks on freedom that Americans had ever been subjected to.
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