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After the sky had been falling for a while and things started to really look bleak I did what a citizen is supposed to do: I went out to do political work. I joined a party of dissidents and we tried to build an alternative political force that could stand up to the powers that be. In the country where I live this is actually possible, quite unlike in the US or the UK, where this is made essentially impossible by electoral law. Two parties in our parliament came to be this way, so why not another one?
And this is a no-brainer. Say no to lockdowns, keep schools open, say no to mask mandates and other authoritarian and ridiculous stuff. Let's just get back to where the world was 2019. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but so much better than now. I figured that "get back to the world of 2019" would be something simple we could all rally around and be super successful.
How naïve of me. The truth is that almost nobody wanted that. That idea of using the current crisis to reorder the world turns out to be extremely popular among the militant lockdown opponents. They just have different goals than the folks from the WEF.
I noticed that first when the party was drawing up a program. The first version, which was written by the members in an egalitarian participative process was a hard money, bank reforming, Montessori/Waldorff and alternative medicine extravaganza that stood exactly zero chance to fly among normies. To my horror, opposing the lockdown measures wasn't even much of a priority.
Talking with potential voters and members of the party, and even with parents opposed to the measures at my kids' school, I saw the same pattern everywhere. A massive majority of the citizens of this country is and was longing for the great collapse from which a better society will emerge. The interesting question seems to be the looks of that new society.
And so here it is, the Great Reset. The old order had fewer adherents that I thought.
And this is a no-brainer. Say no to lockdowns, keep schools open, say no to mask mandates and other authoritarian and ridiculous stuff. Let's just get back to where the world was 2019. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but so much better than now. I figured that "get back to the world of 2019" would be something simple we could all rally around and be super successful.
How naïve of me. The truth is that almost nobody wanted that. That idea of using the current crisis to reorder the world turns out to be extremely popular among the militant lockdown opponents. They just have different goals than the folks from the WEF.
I noticed that first when the party was drawing up a program. The first version, which was written by the members in an egalitarian participative process was a hard money, bank reforming, Montessori/Waldorff and alternative medicine extravaganza that stood exactly zero chance to fly among normies. To my horror, opposing the lockdown measures wasn't even much of a priority.
Talking with potential voters and members of the party, and even with parents opposed to the measures at my kids' school, I saw the same pattern everywhere. A massive majority of the citizens of this country is and was longing for the great collapse from which a better society will emerge. The interesting question seems to be the looks of that new society.
And so here it is, the Great Reset. The old order had fewer adherents that I thought.