Remember these whoppers?

"What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence." — Secretary of State Colin Powell, telling the United Nations Security Council about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction, 2003

"If you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor; if you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan." — President Barack Obama, 2009

The list is endless. Yet when the government tells people that we must all be placed under virtual house arrest lest COVID-19 decimate the population, millions of Americans buy it — even though the government has admitted inflating the statistics to make the pandemic appear worse than it actually is.

Most politicians are dictators at heart.

Consider how quickly elected officials from governors to mayors jumped at the chance to bark orders at the people they supposedly serve. In no time flat and without the slightest constitutional or legal justification for it, they unilaterally created new laws and suspended existing ones, criminalizing such heretofore legal activities as surfing, playing basketball, taking your children to the playground, opening your business to willing customers, and even going to church. Meanwhile, like the good dictators that they are, they felt free to violate their own rules and to arrest and threaten those who protested their tyrannical actions — or simply to ban protests altogether.