Three years after originally posting this, I find no more room left for doubt. The consent of the governed, foundational to our country’s laws and culture, is now a manufactured consent.
Which is to say it’s not real.
Did they ask us first, when they chose to lock us down? Did they ask for permission to transgender our children? Did they ask us if we wanted to be governed by freaks?
Well, why should they, if they can always create the illusion of “consent”?