In other words, if you don't believe the establishment narrative you are chastised, humiliated, vilified, gaslighted, smeared, labeled a conspiracy theorist (which is now tantamount to being a domestic terrorist according to our intel agencies) or tin foil hatter, and cast out as a leper from respectable society.
A few examples:
If you didn't vote for Hillary you were labelled a misogynist.
If you didn't believe in Russiagate you were accused of being Putin's puppet.
If you weren't trashing Trump 24/7 you were a Trump supporter.
If you questioned the financing of BLM you were a racist.
Today if you question the pandemic, lockdowns, the use of mandatory masks, or decide to use alternative healing options, you are a selfish granny-killer who should be interned in camps away from respectable, clean society.
When did everything become black and white? Where is the grey area? If you don't believe as I do you're automatically the enemy, with zero tolerance for questions or discussion? The normalization of deviance--the gradual process by which, in the absence of immediate adverse consequences, the unacceptable becomes acceptable--has spawned a more lethal normalization to such a degree that today, whatever the authorities decide to impose upon the public is embraced without question or scrutiny--even when policies contradict themselves or make no logical sense, even though the "facts" are rife with inconsistencies, even when upon closer examination, the lies are obvious for anyone but the blind. (The normalization of the abnormal.)
Our culture has been poisoned by an exclusive, divisive ideology on whose face claims to be inclusive, but it's anything but. Witness cancel culture or the pile-on effect, where one person is accused of something--often without proof--and publicly ridiculed, and then others follow suit, gleefully throwing gas on already burning fire. Who knew there were so many arsonist-wannabees?
A person I like and respect told me that she unfollowed someone for political rants that she didn't want to hear. That's her right as a human being and I respect that. But you have to wonder why so many tune out the inconvenient, unpalatable truth and rush to whatever makes them feel good. Freud nailed it--humans run to what is pleasurable and away from pain. But that's only postponing the inevitable, and refusing the option to prepare for the worst.
If a neighbour you trust knocks on your door, warning that you're in the path of a monster wildfire that has consumed millions of acres and hundreds of thousands of homes, would you--not smelling smoke or seeing any flames--ignore the warning and continue as if it were business as usual, or would you ride in the direction from where the fire is supposedly coming to see if there's any evidence? One might even pre-emptively remove himself from possible danger, even if only temporarily. One thing is for sure: if you neglect your neighbour's warning and stay where you are without inquiry or examination, and catastrophe does bear down, the truth is you won't know what hit you.