Stefanie Müller: "Trump or Biden, Pepsi or Coca-Cola, it’s all the same."

Blazing Reader,

John & Nisha Whitehead recently wrote in an article titled "The Police State Has a New Playbook: Martial Law, One City at a Time":

Building on the expanded emergency powers he has claimed to wage war on immigration, wokeness and the economy, Trump is taking aim at yet another so-called “crisis” — this time, by waging war on crime in the nation’s capital, despite the fact that crime is at a 30-year low.

Under the guise of “restoring order” and “cleaning up” the streets, Trump has called in the National Guard, dispatched the FBI, and federalized the local police in order to take control of Washington, D.C.

This is how the Emergency State operates in the open.

A real but manageable problem—crime, homelessness, public disorder—is inflated into an existential threat.

Fear is manufactured, then exploited to seize more power. (In many cases, the “facts” fueling these crackdowns come directly from the president’s own disinformation machine—manufacturing the perception of danger to justify the expansion of control.)

Whether the trigger is terrorism, civil unrest, economic instability, or public health, the aim remains the same: expand the reach of federal authority, justify more militarized policing, and condition the public to accept the suspension of rights in the name of national security.

It appears to be the same playbook the Biden/Harris administration executed with COVID and the same playbook that the Bush-Obama duo did with Middle Eastern terrorism.

As Stefanie Müller says in my novel, Much Ado About Corona: "Trump or Biden, Pepsi or Coca-Cola, it’s all the same."

John C.A. Manley

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John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.