Most people did and those that didn’t quietly went along with the regimes plans and machinations. 

 Most people have good intentions even as they are misinformed or simply unaware. Doesn’t mean they are nazis or even just disgusting. These are just projections. 

 You sound like you were probably on the wrong side during Covid. 

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 So glad I’m not America ! 

 Hard to claim good intentions when the internet doesn’t forget express remarks made by the regime. 

 Don’t know what you mean. 

 “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”

-C.S. Lewis 

 Most people are asleep and unaware of what they're agreeing to. 

 But maybe content and focussed on family and living life. 

No shame in that. 

 There's nothing to be ashamed of. 

Agreements can be broken.

Awakening can be quite disruptive if it occurs unexpectedly quickly. 

 “By and large, is the level in which you need to understand most things in order to make effective decisions. 

Whenever a big picture by in large statement is made and someone replies “not always” my instinctual reaction is that we’re probably about to dive into the weeds; that is a discussion of the exceptions rather than the rule and in the process we will lose site of the rule. 

To help people at Bridgewater avoid this time-waster, I often repeat this coined phrase: When you ask someone whether something is true and they tell you that it’s not totally true, it’s probably by in large true.”

- Ray Dalio 

 I am not a philosophical woman, nor that articulate, but that’s just tripe to my simple brain. I experienced the COVID lockdown and saw what I saw. The OP does not resonate with my experience. It is a dark and angry take. It is a projection. 

 What did you see?