Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "'The day of reckoning is here', says author Laura Dodsworth" video.

  1. Entitlement to government assistance with a thing gives government authority over everyone with regard to that thing. From that point forward, it only takes one high official to muck that thing up for everyone. This is especially appalling to see in the USA, where at WORST or at MOST, everything not green-lit by the U.S. Constitution is to be left to the several states to decide for themselves. 50 simultaneous experiments in how to run things. No one person or agency able to impose the will of self-interested and obviously conflicted individuals on everyone in all 50 states. Governors DeSantis and Noem really had to stand up to a lot of pressure from centralized authorities to go their own way in their states. When Biden took office, the authoritarianism wrt COVID response went off the scale. Trump took a "right to try" approach. Career officials took a "You must submit to our will and you may not speak freely on such matters."
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