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Eric Brown's avatar

Anyone who thinks that CBDCs aren't totalitarian hasn't looked at Canada and the Freedom Convoy, when God-Emperor Trudeau used the Emergency Act to lock the truckers out of the banking system.

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I would suggest everybody read and reread "1984." When you control everything you control nothing. So you have copies of all communications in the country and what do you do with them? Sift through all the chaff to pick up something useful? Do you round up 200 million Americans and put them....where? So you have total and perpetual control over the government, but have no way of dealing with 300 million plus 'proles.' They go about their life ignoring you as much as possible, and you in Washington go about your lives feeling smug and superior, with no real control over the masses. If it gets really bad, the 'proles' will construct a 'main street' economy over which the government will have no control. My guess is the proles in "1984" had none of the shortages the lower echelons of the ruling class were subject to. That is the worst case scenario where we will have lost our government permanently. Given the stupidity of our current ruling class they have antagonized needlessly most of us and made our lives worse, and as they keep on failing to govern intelligently their days may be numbered.

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