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> But for the moment, we are united by fear and have some latitude to act. We're literally still fighting the wars that arose out of the last time we acted in
by tengbretson 7y ago
> But for the moment, we are united by fear and have some latitude to act.
We're literally still fighting the wars that arose out of the last time we acted in a moment where we were "united by fear."
- 34679 7y agoAnd living with the erosion of Constitutional protections that seem all too easy to push through in times like these, but impossible to roll back afterward.
- Mirioron 7y agoAnd this is why it's done during a crisis: it works. All the education and talk about how the last time the government overstepped their bounds goes out the window the moment a crisis hits. Then it's all about "why isn't the government doing more?"