As confidence in American institutions drops, support for secession rises.
This shift is not exclusive to conservatives. Even liberals, who voted for a higher minimum wage, student debt forgiveness, and a clean withdrawal from Afghanistan, are disillusioned with our rulers.
But dissidents aren’t immune to cognitive dissonance. Members of Gen Y, Gen X, and the Boomers who remember the fall of the Berlin Wall have difficulty accepting that America holds and tortures political prisoners.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the last big communist bogeyman show more concern for their people’s future than the sadists in Washington show for theirs.
Amid all the confusion, the only certainty is that our rulers no longer have the least thing in common with us. American’s government is at war with its citizens. We find our elites untrustworthy, and they find us loathsome.
As a result, more and more people are reaching the healthy conclusion that peaceful separation is the best solution.
The problem is, a political divorce from Washington, even if possible, may not prove sufficient. The main impediment to escaping America’s totalitarian regime is technological, not political.
The term “totalitarian regime” probably made you think of secret police, midnight knocks on the door, and labor camps.
What you probably didn’t think of, but should have, is this:
Assuming that only governments can oppress people is a vestige of Conservative and Libertarian ideology.
Speaking of corporate censorship, I’m still waiting for my ISP to charge my life savings for visiting your blog—or at least block my access to the online Douay-Rheims Bible. I still remember how the noble coalition of Google, Facebook, and Twitter failed to stop the end of net neutrality, which plunged the whole Internet into a Republican/conservative dark age…
It’s curious that the confidence listed in the poll largely increased from 2019 to 2020 before dropping to a lower level in 2021.
Not that surprising. Going into covid, institutions become important. Then those institutions demonstrate their lack of competence and people are back to not trusting them again.
Big tech aside, a peaceful divorce was never gonna happen. If liberals, much less desth cultists, were capable of “live and let live,” then we wouldn’t be here in the first place
Yet another show of just how much China and Russia care about their future generations is the fact that they are effectively in the process of building their own internet.
We all called Iran crazy for wanting to build their own, but after seeing the BS and insanity coming out of USA owned Big Tech Totalitarians, we really shouldn’t be surprised and we should likely be taking notes.