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 The problem is in the human heart. 
The problem is about trusting other people that you shouldn't be trusted because they have no accountability (you can do nothing to them if they screw you). 
It's a very basic issue about trust. 
Trust your neighbor (or not), but **never** trust anyone that has zero accountability and can get away with deceiving and screwing you.  
 Tucker and Jordan know, i would bet Brett knows as well given his ties to Austin University and Niall Fergussen. If they seem to not know then its an act. Russel and Glenn will catch on. 
 Then why don’t they talk about it constantly like we do? Once you see it, you want to shout it from the rooftops because it becomes painfully obvious. 
 Because they have an audience, you don’t. 
 Some people here would speak in a very different tone if they received recurrent zaps from Pfizer, political parties and the government.  
 True. Selling outrage over what Orwell called “petty specific grievances” makes for a larger audience. https://image.nostr.build/94ed433bba66a7102e36719f41166a9cc7e0e9758e1270febcb9f0f46ca9b13c.jpg  
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 Beautiful quote btw.

Sums up today perfectly. 
 Interesting part of this quote though, is they missed something.

The central gov’t is attempting to destroy patriotism currently. 
 I’m not really an Orwell scholar, but I think what he meant by “primitive patriotism” is “loyalty to the Regime”. Instead of what we might traditionally label patriotism as a “common loyalty”, not to a government, land, or people, but to founding, Natural Law values.

Central government is certainly attempting to destroy the latter.