One reason few people can wrap their head around the realization that the United States is in a full-fledged Constitutional crisis – is that Americans, gripped by fear & materialism, cannot imagine surrendering a lifetime’s accumulation of comfort & possessions in an effort to regain their freedom.

The same people who went apoplectic when asked to wear a mask to *protect people* in a pandemic eagerly wear one to *kidnap people* in Gestapo cosplay.

This is the death of expertise. It's mob rule by the dumbest idiots on Twitter over what spending should get cut in demagogic fashion devoid of logic, reason, or rational thinking. It's a spectacle to divert attention from the looting of the public by unelected oligarchs.