Washington attempts to corral American voters into an illusion of choice between red and blue Washington supremacists—aka the Bushes and the Clintons.
When the American people can communicate freely across social media, everyone becomes a potential threat to the carefully constructed right and left political narratives.
Unrestrained social media empowered the American people to step off the establishment reservation and elect Donald Trump as President of the United States.

Love him or hate him, he was not a part of the script and that loss of control terrified the political class.
Everything since then—including the Russian collusion hoax, censorship on social media, and manipulation of our elections—has been the Washington establishment and their corporate press allies working overtime to reassert control over our system.
At this point, they aren't even committed to maintaining the illusion of choice.

They mean to change the whole system—hijacking federal election laws, packing the courts, stuffing the Senate, and abolishing the Electoral College—to assert permanent control.
But the illusion of choice has always been essential to their game.

As Noam Chomsky observed, the best way to control dissent is not to shut it down entirely, but to encourage very rigorous debate within a very narrow and defined window of allowable public opinion.
As JFK once warned, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

Rigging the game against American conservatives, the Washington establishment knows they are destroying hope for peaceful change through the political system.
What will this rigged system lead to?

The establishment knows, and that is why their new priorities are "gun control" and "domestic terrorism."
If Washington D.C. succeeds in banning "assault weapons," I guarantee you they will immediately begin working to gradually expand the definition of this vague terminology to include every modern firearm in America.
If Washington D.C. succeeds in branding some Americans "domestic terrorists" whose constitutional due process rights can be suspended, I guarantee you they will gradually expand the definition to include all kinds of political dissidents on the left and right.

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