A key difference between the current Obama 3 admin and the Obama 1&2 admins: there is now widespread recognition (including on the left, though they are scared to admit it, even to themselves) that 1) Obiden is cognitively incompetent and 2) his administration - whoever is tasked with making the real decisions, including obviously Obama1 and Clinton - are enacting policies that have no popular support among any constituency. Obama1 still maintained the veneer of legitimacy; people believed his policies did represent large numbers of people - even when they disagreed with those policies. People no longer believe (again, even on the left) that any of the policies are based on any popular support at all, just pure power/money politics.

They know they are in trouble. Thus the censorship of all levers they can pull, which is what you started this thread with. Censorship makes explicit the control they used to be able to exert with greater subtlety. Now that they are being "pulled from behind the curtain," the clock is running, and they know it.

The center senses what's going on, but is not yet viscerally angry enough to act rather than bitch. When the center starts real action (in whichever direction they move), things will change very quickly, either for better or worse. I really really hope people want individual freedom and responsibility enough to reject the false "goody bag" the socialists are throwing at them.