The cognitive dissonance in your writing is epic.

You’re pointing out the very phenomenon that’s been happening for the past five years to Trump supporters — and for the past 20 months to anyone who questions the official COVID-19 narrative or dares not to inject themselves with a novel vaccine that still enables transmission of a virus.

Ordinary citizens have been punished for spreading “fake news” and censored for speaking their minds. Doctors and researchers have been silenced and smeared for sharing data that conflicts with the “facts” dictated by the CDC and WHO. Careers have been trashed and reputations ruined. Websites removed and accounts banned. The unvaccinated have been demonized as ignorant “right wing” lepers — even though many are people of color who vote Democrat — and ostracized and prevented from working, traveling, shopping or dining. They have been denied the fundamental right you now cling to: “My body, by choice.”

But now — because a right cherished by the Left is under assault — you see totalitarianism on your doorstep?

Sweetheart, that monster has been in your house for years now. You’ve just been too blinded by your party politics to notice.