03-05-2021, 10:49 PM
(03-05-2021, 10:02 PM)girlmonday Wrote: Americans don't care if the Gestapo use surveillance drones, but Americans completely lose their minds if protesters protest tyranny.
For now, suppose that the insurrection of January 6 had achieved its ends. We would be having plenty of protests against what would be the effective dictatorship of Donald Trump. Trump would continue to tell us that he really won and what looked like a Biden win was a sham because, well, huge vote fraud that would have to be rectified the next time. Maybe there would already be a secret police forming, and people would be picked up at protests and never be seen again. Congress would be voting already on such measures as allowing states to decide that people could vote only as their employers dictate.
But it did not happen.
As for surveillance drones, I am surprised that they are not already in use for the enforcement of traffic laws. That said, running red lights and stop signs or driving 80 in a 70 zone isn't a political statement.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.