Dark days do indeed lie ahead. We've seen the pattern...a "cybersecurity emergency" will be manufactured when unbiased examination of the facts will reveal no such thing, giving Washington power to commit whatever atrocity they deem advantageous to their controlling interests. Iraq was such a minor power that no one in the region felt them to be a threat, and yet an almighty superpower half a world away was threatened into emergency status? Please. Same shit, different context. Very rarely is there an actually potentially devastating emergency, except as a threat to the monopoly the bought priesthood has over the hearts and minds. The U.S. has one party with two factions, each controlled by shifting sectors of the business elite.

I doubt the people will achieve enlighenment anytime soon...the common people of all industrialized nations have always been wrapped in a cloak of shocking and profound ignorance as to what is actually going on, that I just can't see falling away. You may think it inconceivable that they can get away with this....well, they got away with giving arms to Turkey to help slaughter the Kurds in the 1990s. These people can do absolutely anything and either keep silent about it or, more generally, keep silent on essential details while explaining away the big picture in a whirlwind of high-blown rhetoric, and the people may grumble but will swallow it.