The whole reason China winning would be bad is because of their surveillance state ensuring no one gets around their curtailment of civil liberties…

Reminds me of this other terrible dystopian idea I saw the other day: https://nz.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-announces-plan-control-182840080.html

Glad billionaires think they can steal the sun and sell it back to us now.

Thank you!

Sounds like the centrists are starting to lose their nerve once their constituents start suffering. That is one of my theories of how the shut down ends.

I don’t see any news to corroborate that claim. Link?

I think it’s more that a huge chunk of the population have externally defined morality and thus are very malleable. Many many people do not enjoy the hard work of figuring out their own self-consistent views of right and wrong. So they let their culture define it for them, which the people in charge are more than happy to do. So when the prevailing culture told them it was wrong to be racist against black Americans, they believed it. And now that the culture they stew in tells them (e.g.) black Americans are lazy moochers, they believe that.

TSA and Customs both scan your face instead of your ID/ passport now for adults. It seems like the government has confidence in it?

We can’t hold any of them accountable without remaking the Supreme Court.