People that put all their trust in governments and mainstream media to treat them nicely and never lie to them are foolishly naive. There are countless examples of governments mistreating civilians in the western world and you don't even have to go back further than a century to find them. The amount of times I've heard "But that would never happen here!" when I bring up examples of oppression
* around the world is maddening. It can and it is. Just because you're pretending it's not happening, doesn't mean it isn't.
(* - talking about Coronavirus restrictions/mandates mainly, but also other types of oppression)
The economy and society has been hugely (and dangerously) unbalanced for decades but people have been too distracted with their jobs, personal lives and propaganda consumption to take a step back and look at the bigger picture that it was unsustainable. Some of it is
learned helplessness, they feel they don't have the power to change things and it's too scary to think about, so they just ignore it. I can understand how they'd come to that way of thinking with how bent politics is, but too many people acting that way just rolls out the red carpet for global dictators to come strolling in and oppress everyone without opposition. The masses can win if they stop petty squabbles amongst themselves and act against who the real enemies are, but sadly divide and conquer via the media is a highly effective tactic to disrupt that (v*x vs unv*x, black vs white, man vs woman, straight vs gay, etc). The insanity of the situation is some of the people who chose to get jabbed recently are more mad at the people who chose not to believe the bullshit of the v*ccine situation and wanted to exercise bodily autonomy, than the people who forced them to get jabbed in the first place. Some of the jabbed people think it's unfair how unjabbed can still go to events now and resent them for it, some calling for them to be forever banned from these places or imprisoned. They want everyone else to suffer along with them for the bad choice they made.
The Canadian truck drivers who protested recently are heroes, people should be rallying behind them for fighting for everyone's collective rights. Some people are, but there will be some idiots criticizing them for their actions. United we stand, divided we fall - our future could hinge on people remembering that.