Originally Posted by
Michael Wolf
The price of being the most materially successful, wealthiest society in human history: even the many who were against these things, were comfortable enough and had so much to lose by disobeying, that it took 6-7 months of total squeezing of their assets and restricting their normal, essential human interaction until they started to become desperate enough to resist.
It's ironic that one of the left's big recent talking points until just before covid is how the average American doesn't have enough money to cover a $400 emergency or something like that. Think about how ludicrous and obviously untrue that must be in light of what we've actually seen the past 7 months.