Interesting Times

The terrorists are planning an attack on my city in the coming days. DC is in a state of emergency until the 21st. Disturbing reports that multiple MPD officers were part of the mob make me worried MPD won't do their jobs. (I mean moreso than usual.) Not to mention the Capitol Police, who let the mob in and took selfies with them. 

Social media corporations, which bear so much responsibility for the rise in extremism, are banning these nazis, including Mango Mussolini himself, and Parler was taken out of the Play and Apple stores so it is harder for the terrorists to organize.

I think I live far enough away from the Capitol to not be personally at risk, but it is just down the street, and the National Guard is nearby. There was a shootout car chase on the day of the insurrection a couple of blocks from me that MPD won't talk about, and there was a suspicious package found about an hour ago in the area.

This threat is not a joke.

I wish I could say I trusted security forces in the city, but too many cops side with nazis these days, and duty to country seems to have disappeared for this invisible threat they think Democrats are. Future historians who study propaganda will look back at this period as a time of mass hysteria. All I can think about is the phenomenon in the Middle Ages known as Dancing Mania where large groups of people would start dancing and wouldn't stop until they collapsed of exhaustion or died. Yes, died. (Historians still don't know exactly why this happened.)

Now large groups of mediocre people with mediocre lives are gathering in mobs and militias for some made up threat because they've been bombarded with propaganda from the wealthy and powerful, who want to use them as foot soldiers for more power. They can't grasp they're getting played. Anyone who voted for Trump who isn't in the top 25% of the wealthiest Americans is getting played. If you got a stimulus check and you voted for Trump, you've been played. 

Propaganda is one hell of a drug.

The next 11 days in DC will be highly stressful. At least many of us will be stuck at home.