When the BLM protests happened end of May 2020 all the way through the summer and the propaganda shifted to that these were "good" and "not super spreader events", I think that broke the spell for the majority of people. Everything they had been told to do was suddenly fine to do. At the time I was so annoyed and then frightened by how quickly things escalated (our local rural grocery store was robbed by a group of people in hoodies who just ran in and took whatever they wanted yelling BLM), and now I find myself wondering if BLM stuff actually saved us from a total takeover of all our civll liberties and rights. Because their flagrant violation of what had been imposed, the cognitive dissonance was too great for people.
Living through 2020 and I still can't believe everything that happened. What a crazy year. And the ones that followed too.
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Re: Accidental help to the narrative
Date: 2022-12-08 05:12 pm (UTC)Living through 2020 and I still can't believe everything that happened. What a crazy year. And the ones that followed too.