The mandates will lose. Ultimately weโll look back on this time as a time where hysteria allowed bad actors, opportunists, and con men on all sides to flourish and enrich themselves in multiple ways. We took a look under the hood and it wasnโt pretty.
The reason many people in the West take freedom for granted is they think progress is inevitable. They think liberal democracy will last forever because how could we go backwards when we're always moving forward?
Unfortunately, this couldn't be more historically illiterate: