OPINION:
There are two main ways to control a population: buy off players to instill fear or blackmail the compromised. It’s nothing new. Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini were masters at it. Ironically, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s greatest task in World War II was outmaneuvering domestic enemies.
In today’s world, exaggerated COVID-19 mask mandates and fossil-fuel-guzzling automobiles predominate. Cloth masks don’t filter viruses and the largest contributor of carbon dioxide is heating and air conditioning, not automobiles. Wildfires, anyone?
Geothermal and on-demand hot water could mitigate the use of fossil fuels. Guess what the real reason for the push to all-electric cars is? What happened to hybrids that recharge their own batteries? That would take a strain off the power grids and supply lines.
Don’t buy into manufactured panic. It’s competition between the elites to divide us that makes them rich and powerful, and that make us dependent on them and an overstrained and vulnerable power grid. Where will the elites be when something goes wrong?
Fear and intimidation from ideologues work, something Roosevelt knew and Americans before him had overcome. We, too, can overcome these grifters with common sense and transition to a sustainable future.
FRED STEWART
Grand Junction, Colorado
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