>There was no existential panic, but a straight up propaganda campaign waged by a collaborative media and government to ensure that this would be accepted, and

>There was no existential panic, but a straight up propaganda campaign waged by a collaborative media and government to ensure that this would be accepted, and that dissenters would be seen as "the other" to be feared and reviled, and potentially targeted for law enforcement action. I'm also old enough to have seen the change happen, and maybe it's just that you and I lived in separate bubbles, but I really don't agree with this. I absolutely did see an existential panic in the general population, we were in an insane frenzy, and I don't get the sense that the media or government needed a propaganda campaign to get this sort of shit passed. Aside from a very small number of dissenters (including myself), we were all out for blood and there was no such thing as too far. Hate crimes against People Who Look Vaguely Like They Might Be Muslims shot through the roof, in spite of the government trying to quell that sort of thing. Giant flags the size of New York City were being flown on peoples' cars left and right. Normal Americans were absolutely NOT acting normal and didn't need any push towards supporting insane policy ideas.