I fear we’re moving into that unfortunate and seemingly extended period now in American history, when the government becomes unapologetically capable of murdering its own citizens with impunity.
Such a state never arrives quickly. It is rather a gradual process, which at each step along the way, requires the population to consent to further and previously unimaginable insults.
Propaganda has no more historically tyrannical purpose than brainwashing decent everyday people into willingly accepting (and even welcoming) each next step on the way to their ultimate loss of all freedom.
Earth, Air, Fire, & Water, give life and take it away