12-21-2021, 11:17 AM
Nobody yet knows how dangerous the omicron virus is. This goes with the Reagan campaign, but obviously any variant of COVID-19 should be considered supremely dangerous until proved otherwise or it goes extinct. This ad was effective in getting Reagan elected or re-elected (I forget which)... whatever, the "bear" that is any variant of COVID-19 is at least as dangerous as Communism ever was in America.
We may be back nearly to the early response to the initial appearance of COVID-19. What is different? A majority of Americans are appropriately inoculated.
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.