'consumers' believe what they're told by any who appear to be official. the rest of us have discovered at some point that it's lies and obfuscations we're being fed, and here you can see that fleshed out;
They’re not your protectors if they’re eating you.
Guest post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic
Bruno walks into a neighborhood shop and threatens the shopkeeper
with unspecified “bad things” if the shopkeeper doesn’t fork over $200 a
week. The shopkeeper pays. If Bruno runs a “legitimate” protection
racket, bad things don’t happen.
You can skip a class, indeed an entire four-year program in political
theory, if you realize that governments are everywhere and always
protection rackets. Fork over money and personal freedom and the state
will protect you from bad things, specified or otherwise. Sometimes the
state aligns itself with a deity or deities, demanding not just money
and obedience but worship, too.
What if the shopkeeper pays Bruno, but his shop is still beset with
burglaries? What if he discovers that Bruno is the burglar? The
shopkeeper faces the same quandary as billions of people who are
subjugated by governments: they need protection from their protection
rackets. The protector has dropped all pretense of protection and has
become a predator.
When the Soviet Union conducted its first successful atomic bomb test
on August 29, 1949, it undercut the protection-racket rationale for
governments. No one realized it at the time, but how can you run a
protection racket if you can’t protect those you’re purportedly
protecting from annihilation? Perhaps that wasn’t the case in 1949―the
US still had a lead in nuclear armaments―but by 1955, when the Soviets
detonated their first hydrogen bomb, it was clear that all either the
Soviet or American government could offer its people was assured
destruction of the other side, and most likely their own, in the event
of an attack...........https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/01/07/predators-and-saprophytes/#more-189762
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