Re the covid pandemic: there’s an order of operations to things. You don’t launch the pandemic and mandate the shot and vax passes *before* persuading people to do CBDCs.

You don’t freeze the bank accounts of protesting Canadian truckers *before* the US has implemented that policy.

You don’t start censoring and deplatforming people *before* you can shut off their funds remotely with the click of a button.

Someone had to know this, but I think they got impatient and were worried if they didn’t have the excuse for inauditable mail-in ballots, Trump might win again and they’d be delayed another four years.

So they launched it and hoped for the best, but predictably didn’t achieve the total demoralization and control for which they had hoped, just this split-reality society where awake people live side-by-side with the zombified.

I think there’s an angle to this where you can cast Hillary Clinton as the unlikely savior of humanity because she was so widely reviled and even helped prop up Trump in the primaries because she knew the institutions would be against him. Basically, only she could have lost to that version of Trump, whereas a generic democrat probably would have won following the relatively popular Obama.

She might be the Gollum biting off Frodo’s finger and taking the ring down with her into the fires of Mordor.