{"id":120648,"date":"2022-01-11T19:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/01\/11\/2021-the-year-of-the-ruling-class-crackdown-on-dissent\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:25:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:25:53","slug":"2021-the-year-of-the-ruling-class-crackdown-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2021-the-year-of-the-ruling-class-crackdown-on-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"2021: The Year of the Ruling Class&#8217; Crackdown on Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2020 was the year of the <em>lockdown<\/em>, when the Ruling Class arbitrarily, capriciously and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/america-fast-becoming-woke-theocracy-opinion-1518938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">selectively<\/a> suspended the natural rights bedrock upon which American life\u2014indeed, life itself\u2014relies.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2021 closes as the year of the <em>crackdown<\/em>, when the Ruling Class weaponized its powers to crush dissenters from its Wokeist-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/scotus-dismissal-of-ny-vax-mandate-subordinates-religion-to-scientism_4168216.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scientist<\/a> orthodoxy in arguably the most far-reaching, brazen and lawless assault on Americans by the state and its private-sector adjuncts in our nation&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>This was the year that the campus became the country. 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