Madeleine Morris on Nostr: I suspect that decades from now, history will point to the Covid pandemic as the ...
I suspect that decades from now, history will point to the Covid pandemic as the tipping point - a time when, disoriented by the threat and craving both distraction and a sense of certainty, a huge percentage of the population were uniquely vulnerable to being persuaded, via lies and conspiracy theories, that the most admirable aspects of social democratic initiatives were a threat to their 'freedom' and 'intolerable government overreach'.
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