We are all being played.
I see a trend here. To villainize a group that really isn't doing anything but living their lives. And then use that to arrest some and control the rest through fear.
In gulag archepelego, he talks about how they would have a war on X, then a war on Y, then a war on Z. And each time they would gather up a bunch of people and send them to the gulags. Not that it ever did anything to the crimes X,Y,or Z. (and what were they doing about crimes Y and Z, when they were soo focussed on X?)
Yep. That is what I am seeing. I was taking a stab at representing it in a way that might get more people to see it.
Smoke and Mirrors.
Instead of Sleight of Hand it is "Sleight of Mind"