"The generations before us understood that it is the minimum function of a responsible government to invest in the long-term ability to feed its citizens."

Additionally, the FBI returned at least some of the materials it seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club during a court-authorized search in August 2022.

Do you say "They don't know much about me. I rarely use social media."? Think again. You are a "hole" in a detailed network graph. They know who you are and where you fit amongst all your family and friends who do use all these platforms.

Do not proactively obey. Stand up, speak your mind, in public, on social media, letters to the editor, etc. Don't tone down your response because you are afraid now. It could still matter now and it will only get worse later.

Trying to keep your head down now won't make it easier on you later. It will just let them consolidate power so they can get around to you eventually.

Realize that keeping your head down in hopes they won't target you will *not* work. They already have detailed digital dossiers on most of us - our friends, family, work networks, political leanings, etc. If you are a good person (and I hope you are!), they already know that.

May the difference be that this time we know where the road to appeasement leads and we reject it. It will not get easier if we are quiet now, only uglier and harder to stop.

“The central message” of this backlash, writes Gordon, “has routinely been that ‘big government’ has overstepped its bounds and trampled individual rights, and that the architects of those reforms are not just misguided but treasonous.”

There was no rape epidemic but she created one. (31:49)

"I think she wanted me to see that she knew that the most cultlike aspects of the business were over the top, that she hadn’t been taken in entirely, that she wasn’t some kind of fool. But it didn’t matter. In the end, Amway owned her as fully as if she’d believed every word."