Heeding the Winds of Change

I'm of the opinion that 2022 marked a turning point when it comes to people's perception of politicians and their myriad of experts. Up until mid 2022, people went along with expert pinion. But ever since then, experts have been increasingly viewed with suspicion. There's a growing awareness of a hidden agenda. The experts aren't there to tell us the truth. Rather, they're paid agents for an elite determined to control us.

This has resulted in calls for honest investigations and more openness. Politicians like Donald Trump have in turn caught onto this new trend. His rhetoric has changed from praising #science to questioning it. He has caught onto the new trend, and intends to ride it like a surfer rides a wave.

However, not everybody has caught onto the new trend, it seems. The governor of New Mexico has declared the 2nd amendment void for 30 days due to an increase in gun violence. But how exactly is she in a position to do so? Is she somehow elevated above the constitution of the United States?

I'm an anarchist, so I'm not saying that the constitution has any legitimate power, nor am I saying that politicians have any legitimate powers. The point isn't that the governor is acting as a tyrant, but rather that she's acting against the current trend. People want more openness and accountability, not less.

This makes the governor's actions interesting as a test case for the new trend. If she succeeds in acting out her tyrannical decree without much opposition, we may still have some time to go before we can say for sure that a new era has started. However, if this ends up as a political disaster for her, we have yet more support for our thesis.

Catching a big wave

By Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden - IMG_8762, CC BY 2.0, Link