Let's hope that people don't take this to mean "Yay Republicans!" There are far too many Republicans also endorsing state power far beyond what is healthy for humanity. Power must return to individual citizens. A pandemic is actually a great test case to find out how much we will accept. There are promising signs that people in the west are remembering again (each generation has to learn this lesson individually, it appears) that giving power to the center to "control" the population is a terrible idea, in all contexts.

The next very important step is also openly acknowledging the dirty "secrets" (not actually secret, even Democrats know this but politely ignore) of the massive corruption in both parties right now. Time to end the "show hearings" that paper over unbelievable evil and start actually holding individuals criminally accountable. Sexual assault and abuse of minors is a very promising direction to move with this. So much has been swept under the rug. Time to get under that rug... There are so many from both parties, but Hunter Biden is a particularly glaring black eye, given that we have his own fucking laptop telling us precisely what he and his father have done. It's mind boggling, really...