This is a very good point. Create a diversion to move people's attention away from the State's failures or underperformance; political theater all the way.
This is not to say that an opioid crisis does not exist, only that it is being used for nefarious purposes.
It's not rocket science to predict the outcome, based on current events: opioids become so difficult to get, even for legitimate purposes like breakthrough cancer and post-surgical pain, that the genuine users suffer along with the so-called abusers; politicos declare victory; and we get stuck with more dangerous pain relief that has not (yet) come under scrutiny.
This is another turn of the screw that crushes the populace a little further into servitude.
Hyperbole? No.
Taken together with the other almost invisible attacks on our freedoms, such as
- not being able to deposit $5,000 or more in totally legitimate cash without being reported to the finance cops,
- the loss of 7th amendment rights by more and more contracts incorporating mandatory binding arbitration clauses, and
- the need for good credit ratings effectively forcing us to have at least some debt,
a reasonable person will surely agree that the sum of these, and upcoming, small tyrannies, if unchecked, will leave most of us in servitude to the State and the "Corporate State".
This is not to say that an opioid crisis does not exist, only that it is being used for nefarious purposes.
It's not rocket science to predict the outcome, based on current events: opioids become so difficult to get, even for legitimate purposes like breakthrough cancer and post-surgical pain, that the genuine users suffer along with the so-called abusers; politicos declare victory; and we get stuck with more dangerous pain relief that has not (yet) come under scrutiny.
This is another turn of the screw that crushes the populace a little further into servitude.
Hyperbole? No.
Taken together with the other almost invisible attacks on our freedoms, such as
- not being able to deposit $5,000 or more in totally legitimate cash without being reported to the finance cops,
- the loss of 7th amendment rights by more and more contracts incorporating mandatory binding arbitration clauses, and
- the need for good credit ratings effectively forcing us to have at least some debt,
a reasonable person will surely agree that the sum of these, and upcoming, small tyrannies, if unchecked, will leave most of us in servitude to the State and the "Corporate State".