it’s a bizarrely intrinsic article of faith among humanity that one can trade liberty for safety and that if we just put “good, smart people” in change and let them tell us what to do, they will protect us.
A child of the peace and antiWar movements, a Truther with self-diagnosed Opposition Defiance Disorder, formerly politically liberal tho now politically marooned, and Post-Doomer, on any issue, I trend to the conspiracy side, sort through the absurd, fantastical and insane, until I find firm ground usually located just the other side of the censorship firewall of propaganda and orthodoxy, dogma, and other either / or thinking.