Don’t be a victim. From J.B. Shurk at americanthinker.com:
Two years ago, world-class researcher and analyst “Sundance” posted an alarming essay on his website, The Conservative Treehouse. Taking a look back at the previous years’ severe COVID tyranny, the rise of the Biden administration’s censorship regime, and the false media narratives pushing a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, “Sundance” soberly concluded that “We the People” are in an abusive relationship with government. Within that essay, he embedded a picture of a woman holding a sign that reads: “DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish.”
At the end of the essay, there is a chart from a mental health organization entitled, “15 Signs That You Might Be in an Abusive Relationship.” All fifteen signs are worth pondering:
(1) Stop you from seeing friends and family.
(2) Won’t let you leave home without permission.
(3) Tell you what to wear.
(4) Monitor your phone, emails, and communication.
(5) Control finances, won’t let you work.
(6) Control what you read, watch, and say.
(7) Monitor everything you do.
(8) Punish you for breaking rules that keep changing.
(9) Tell you it’s for your own good. They know better.
(10) Don’t allow you to question decisions.
(11) Tell you you’re crazy, and no-one agrees with you.
(12) Call you names, or shame you for being selfish.
(13) Gaslight you, challenge your memory of events, make you doubt yourself.
(14) Dismiss your opinions.
(15) Play the victim if things go wrong. It’s all your fault.
Although his essay was meant to highlight how government authorities used COVID to advance totalitarianism throughout the West, “Sundance” concludes with a warning about the mass surveillance State being constructed to control the flow of information, isolate us from each other, and make us dependent upon government bureaucrats for survival. “I never really understood how people could accept the formation of communism around them,” he wrote. “Now I do.”
Live free or don’t.
It’s your choice.
The man made god that always fails known as government is pure comedy gold.
I beg to differ Not Sure. The pureness of comedy gold resides in you. Government is never funny but I do so appreciate your pithy commentary.